Nick Oketch

Nick Oketch hails from rural Siaya County in western Kenya and has six years’ experience in the nonprofit and volunteer sectors. He is inspired to fight for and advance gender equality, youth development, and sexual health rights. Nick’s work entails youth rights advocacy and capacity building for young women and adolescents in his community. Nick Oketch is currently an UNLEASH Lab 2017 SDG Talent, Women Deliver Young Global Leader, Johnson and Johnson Global Fellow, and YALI Regional Leadership Center East Africa alumnus. Nick is also the director and founder of the Paradigm Youth Network Organization in Kenya, an organization aiming to break the culture of silence on sex and sexuality among young people ages 13-24. He holds Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and a certificate in Global Health from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States. He is passionate about engaging youth and improving the health of young people and adolescents in his community.