Awino Okech

Professor Awino Okech is a professor of feminist and security studies at SOAS, University of London. Some of her publications include Movement Building Responses to COVID-19: Lessons from the JASS Mobilisation Fund (2021), Feminist Digital Counterpublics: Challenging Femicide in Kenya and South Africa (2021), African Feminist Epistemic Communities and Decoloniality (2020) and Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa (2020). Professor Okech has worked with a range of intergovernmental organisations such as the African Union and UNECA on projects related to gender, security and conflict. Her teaching and research interests lie in the nexus between gender, sexuality and nation/state making projects as they occur in conflict and post-conflict societies.