About Us

OUR MISSION

Enhancing artistic ability
and wellness.

OUR VISION

A strengthened creative
and cultural industry.

Sekoya East Africa is an arts organization that serves emerging craft makers and creative professionals through creative skills development, promotion of their work and provision of peer mentorship. We believe arts and culture have a fundamental role in holistic human development and work to enable creative expression and cultural engagement through accessible channels.

We are driven to establish and grow collaborations among East African artists as a way to sustain the arts in the region.

Our Core Values

01

Collaborative Community

We believe building the arts begins with strong artistic communities working together whose doors are open to all artistic abilities and channels of growth affordable.

02

Freedom In Innovation

We encourage openness in creative expression and incorporation of personal style while it.

03

Peer Support

We are quick to be creative companions to artists in the foundational stages of personal and professional development where it is needed the most.

04

Resilience

Inspired by our name root ‘sequoia’ we are driven by an attitude of firmness and tap into creativity as a means to achieving it.

Sekoya Milestones

Our 2020-2024 accomplishments so far

2020-2024
Sekoya Milestones

59

Programs
and Events

815+

Audiences
reached
anually

145

Virtual
Creative
Creative

21

Mentors

33

Volunteers

Ksh 1.5 M+

Annual in-kind
operational, voluntary
value received

240+

Volunteer
hours monthly

Team Yetu

Creative. Driven. Trailblazers.

Sharon Zarita

Founder and Managing Director

Nancy Muttai

Project Manager
NJOKI

Diana Njoki

Project Coordinator
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Eunice Mattu

Volunteer
Kaila

Kaila

Volunteer
Kimberly

Kimberly

Volunteer
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Naomi Muttai

Social Media Coordinator
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Njeri Bilhah

Volunteer
Sylvester

Sylvester Mutua

Volunteer
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Tamara Naanyu

Volunteer
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Tess Atieno

Volunteer
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Trevor Festus

Volunteer