Full Name
Njoki Mbũrũ
Job Title
Storyteller, Facilitator, Imagination Alchemist
Company
NA
Speaker Bio
Among many intersections of identity, Njoki is a storyteller, poet, and immigrant from Kenya who is currently living on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Building on her completion of the LEVEL Youth Public Policy Program through the Vancouver Foundation in 2020, she has continued to advocate for policies, projects, and partnerships that uplift the leadership and voices of Indigenous and Black people and communities. Between August 2022 to November 2023, she completed a storytelling fellowship with the Community Foundations of Canada; an experience which has now propelled her to deepen her exploration of the relationships between public policy, emerging technologies, and philanthropy. Njoki's storytelling has been featured on multiple platforms, including podcast interviews as well as a recent publication in The Philanthropist Journal. As a guiding framework for her relationships and imagination work, she often leans on the question "What else is possible?"