Ann Mikia
- Agriculture
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Pollution
- Health
- Forests
- Natural Disasters
- Wildlife Trafficking
Ann Mikia is a trained radio journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. She has worked with the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation as a producer and has a wealth of experience in radio journalism as well as working with community radio journalists.
She has a Masters of Arts (Communications) degree and a BA in Communication and Sociology degree both from the University of Nairobi. She also has a Diploma in Journalism from the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication.
She is accredited as a solutions journalism trainer by Solutions Journalism Network and recently trained journalists in Kenya and East Africa on this topic, helping change the negative perception of East Africa and spotlighting the many positive but often untold stories.
She produced an award-winning HIV program called 'A Stitch In Time' among many other programs. She has also worked with Internews Kenya as a media health trainer/mentor where she gave trainings on telling HIV and AIDS stories by giving HIV a human face in contexts where there is intense stigma.
Ann has also written print stories that are solutions-based on health, wildlife crime, and illegal fishing in Lake Victoria.
Her most remarkable story is one where she interviewed reformed poachers on how they now work with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to educate the public against poaching.
Ann Mikia
- Agriculture
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Pollution
- Health
- Forests
- Natural Disasters
- Wildlife Trafficking
Ann Mikia is a trained radio journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. She has worked with the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation as a producer and has a wealth of experience in radio journalism as well as working with community radio journalists.
She has a Masters of Arts (Communications) degree and a BA in Communication and Sociology degree both from the University of Nairobi. She also has a Diploma in Journalism from the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication.
She is accredited as a solutions journalism trainer by Solutions Journalism Network and recently trained journalists in Kenya and East Africa on this topic, helping change the negative perception of East Africa and spotlighting the many positive but often untold stories.
She produced an award-winning HIV program called 'A Stitch In Time' among many other programs. She has also worked with Internews Kenya as a media health trainer/mentor where she gave trainings on telling HIV and AIDS stories by giving HIV a human face in contexts where there is intense stigma.
Ann has also written print stories that are solutions-based on health, wildlife crime, and illegal fishing in Lake Victoria.
Her most remarkable story is one where she interviewed reformed poachers on how they now work with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to educate the public against poaching.