Carol Kiangura: Exercising Citizen Power Beyond Elections
2022 Fellow Spotlight Series — This talk was recorded for the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program at Stanford University in 2022.
Carol Kiangura is a civil society activist who has spent the last 10 years working on fiscal governance and social justice issues across Africa. Carol is based in Nairobi, Kenya, and currently works for People Powered as the Director of Partnerships. People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy, an organization that builds the power and impact of organizations and leaders around the world who are building more deliberative and participatory democracy through programs such as participatory budgeting.
Previously Carol worked for the International Budget Partnership, where she supported African civil society and government efforts on open and accountable public budget systems so that all citizens claim their right to understand and influence how public money is raised and spent. Before that, while working for Publish What You Pay (PWYP), Carol championed Pan-African campaigns for an open and accountable extractive industry so that revenues from oil, gas, and mining are used to drive development.