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Teresiah Muthoni

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Sister Teresiah Muthoni, LSOSF, is a member of the Women Faith Leaders Fellowship 2024-2025 cohort. She is affiliated with the Little Sisters of St. Francis and holds a doctorate in law. Her studies focused on the right to property for women under international human rights law, analyzing the legal protections in Kenya. She is also an advocate of the High Court of Kenya currently practicing as the chief legal advisor of the Archdiocese of Nairobi in Kenya. Her background as a woman raised by a single parent who was denied inheritance aroused her desire to find out how women can be protected from patriarchy and discrimination on pertinent issues such as the right to own property. This has fueled her desire to empower women and girls on their human rights as protected by the law.