Teaching and Leadership
🧑🏫 Leadership Roles
NiweBora Leadership Program – Founder & Program Lead
Sept 2021 – Present
Founded and run a leadership mentoring program that has supported over 100 students transitioning from high school to university. The program develops leadership, emotional intelligence, and civic responsibility in young adults.
Data Carpentries Instructor – The Carpentries
Oct 2022 – Present
- Taught essential software tools, data handling, and version control to 50+ learners.
- Co-developed engaging learning materials with other instructors.
- Consistently received high participant ratings for clear and accessible instruction.
🎓 Undergraduate Courses Taught
DSA 3050 – Business Intelligence and Visualization
Focuses on BI maturity models, dashboarding, and data storytelling using tools like Tableau and Power BI.
DSA 2040 – Data Warehousing
Covers ETL processes, dimensional modeling, and data warehouse architecture for analytical systems.
DSA 3030 – Big Data Architecture
Introduces Hadoop, Spark, and distributed systems for scalable data processing.
IST 3005 – Social Media Analytics
Explores social listening, sentiment analysis, and network analysis using tools like Gephi and Python-based NLP.
ACS 261 – Database Management Systems
Covers relational databases, SQL, and data modeling principles for system design and implementation.
IST 3015 – Business Data Analytics
Combines statistics, business modeling, and analytics tools for data-driven decision-making.
IST 1025 – Data Science with Python
Introductory course teaching data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, and predictive modeling in Python.
🎓 Postgraduate Courses Taught
MDA 6320 – Data Governance and Ethics (Masters)
Focuses on data privacy, digital ethics, governance frameworks (GDPR, local policy), and ethical AI in practice.
🤝 Partnerships & Recognition
- Afrela – Strategic partnership on scaling Finlingo for financial literacy across Africa.
- Upanzi Partnership – Collaboration to enhance mobile threat detection and scam response systems.
- Deep Learning Indaba (2023) – Presented scam detection dataset; appointed Church lead.
- Honeynet Project & SIMElab Africa – Collaborative research on cybersecurity and misinformation response.
- Indabax Kenya – Community contributions via datasets and mentoring.