Catherine Gicheru is an International Center for Journalists Fellow and director of the Africa Women Journalism Project, a collaborative of women journalists driving the coverage of under-explored issues affecting women and other marginalised groups and strengthening the voices of women journalists by helping them become innovators and changer makers in their newsrooms. She was the country lead of Code for Kenya, a civic tech initiative that is part of the pan-African federation Code for Africa. A veteran journalist with two of the leading media organisations in the region, Catherine co-founded East Africa’s first budget and public finance fact-checking and verification initiative, PesaCheck. She is a Nieman Fellow, a Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Fellow and an IWMF Courage in Journalism award winner and has contributed to various publications looking at among other issues, the open data movement and the media in the continent, a collection of investigative and campaigning journalism written by Africans about Africa an online safety for African women journalists.