Julia Wanjeri, Founder/Project Lead
Julia Wanjeri, the project lead at Jeri Consulting, is a journalist and communications strategist with over a decade of experience in developing and implementing actionable communications strategies across traditional and new media.
Some of the leading organisations Julia and the team at Jeri Consulting have had the honours of partnering with include:
- Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association
- Upper Hill Medical Centre
- Grevy’s Zebra Trust
- Rhino Ark
- City Eye Hospital
- Act Kenya
- VetinWild
- Azizi Consulting
- Amboseli Ecosystem Trust
- Micro Enterprises Support Programme Trust
- Taita Taveta Wildlife Conservancies Association
- Athi Kapiti Wildlife Conservancies Association, among many others.
Julia has previously served in several managerial roles, including as the Managing Editor of Siri Magazine (a reproductive health magazine published by Populations Services International and based on the SIRI TV show that used to air on Citizen TV, Kenya) and as a Communications Specialist at Northern Rangelands Trust (a not-for-profit supporting community-led wildlife conservation in Kenya and Uganda).
She is also the Founding Digital Editor of the globally- recognised African women’s football platform JWsports1 and currently sits on the panel of experts that selects the BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year (since 2017) and the panel of judges that selects the Guardian’s Top 100 Female Footballers of the Year (since 2018).
A print journalist by training (at heart too), Julia occasionally picks the pen as well. Her work has appeared in books, such as:
- 86 and Counting: Women Leaders in Kenya’s 11th Parliament, published by AMWIK.
- Life Journeys: Seeking Destiny: Conversations with High Achieving Women in Kenya, published by Footprints Press.
