Tabitha Griffith Saoyo

Doctoral Researcher

Tabitha Griffith Saoyo is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with over eight years experience navigating the policy, human rights ,health and governance spaces in East Africa. Her special bias is in Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights, particularly having engaged in programs targeted at addressing unsafe abortion, sexual violence, forced sterilization and teen pregnancies. Professionally, Saoyo has worked in private practice, served at the Federation of Women Lawyers-Kenya and consulted for UNDP in contextualizing HIV and the linkages to sexual and gender based violence. Until recently, she was the Deputy Director and Head of Programs at KELIN, a Kenyan NGO working on health related rights.

Tabitha holds a LLB (Moi University), Post Graduate Diploma (Kenya School of Law), LLM (University of Pretoria), Aspen New Voices Fellow 2019 and Law Society of Kenya Pro-Bono Jurist 2019.

In her spare time, she enjoys teaching and has been a visiting lecturer at the Strathmore Law School, Kenya and Centre for Human Rights, South Africa.