Nancy Akeyo brings more than a decade of leadership in Kenya’s health and education sectors to scaling Tiba’s Boda Girls program. But her commitment to empowering women and girls comes from lived experience.

Raised in a rural home with 16 children, Nancy set out on her own path after attending local public schools before moving to Nairobi to pursue opportunity and work. She worked as a nanny in a relative’s home in Nairobi to save for her first computer class, a skill that earned her a job teaching computers in a kindergarten school, and taught herself the skills to enter university. Determined to advance her education, she balanced teaching during the day with university coursework in the evenings, ultimately earning a Bachelor’s degree in Project Planning and Management and later an MBA in Strategic Planning and Management. Not forgetting the challenges girls in poverty face, she founded “The Confidence Queen”, a mentoring program helping girls build confidence and connects female college students with girls living in Nairobi’s slums with friendship, tutoring and community service field trips. To address the misinformation about menstruation and the lack of supplies that keep many girls from attending schools during their periods, she created a program for girls to make sustainable menstrual pads, and even wrote a comic book to help girls understand and celebrate their bodies with dignity.

Her career has also combined organizational management expertise with a passion for making social impact. She has helped scale girls centered empowerment programs reaching millions of Kenyan teens and guided international nonprofits in building sustainable grant program and community partnership strategies. Her work reflects a deep commitment to equity, dignity, and sustainable impact, values that align strongly with the vision of Boda Girls.

Now at Tiba, Nancy is leading the expansion of Boda Girls—building hospital partnerships, training mentors, and advancing electric motorcycle programs. With her vision, Boda Girls is becoming a powerful force for women’s health, leadership, and opportunity in Kenya. In July, she helped us open a new Boda Girls program at MED25 Hospital in Mbita and launch an electric motorcycle program at Matibabu Hospital, the Boda Girls Center of Excellence and Innovation. 

Reason for Joining Boda Girls:
She joined Boda Girls out of a personal conviction to break these barriers to show that with the right support, girls and women from any background can rise, lead, and create lasting change in their communities.