John Mulingwa Nzau is a visionary and passionate community organizer who has been engaged in human rights and social justice activism since the age of 17. As an ORA Fellow, he is researching and exposing the entrenched inequalities and systemic discrimination faced by marginalized communities in Nairobi City County.
His project challenges the legacy of successive regimes that have overlooked the needs of working-class and underserved communities, while favoring the interests of the wealthy and powerful. By bringing the debate on inequality into the court of public opinion, his work aims to influence policy, legislative reform, and broader social change.