Leah Mainye

Leah Mainye joined the marine team in December 2019. Prior to this, she worked as an intern at several conservation organisations; namely, A Rocha Kenya and the REEFolution Foundation. She obtained her BSc in Marine Biology from the University of San Carlos, Philippines, where her enthusiasm for marine conservation led her to focus on by-catch species in crab fisheries as part of her undergraduate thesis project, which she successfully completed in 2018. As a sea turtle monitoring assistant, she dives almost daily to monitor the sea turtle population via a photographic identification project along Diani’s coastline.