Assistant Director, Training and Curriculum Development
Christine Nguku is the Assistant Director, in charge of Training and Curriculum Development at the Media Council of Kenya (MCK). She is a seasoned journalist with more than 25 years’ experience, a media and communication trainer, and has served as a journalism lecturer.
Christine has worked as a journalist and editor at KTN between 1991 and 2004. In 2005 she left the newsroom to become a founding Director of a local language radio station, Mbaitu FM, where she served until 2011.
She progressed into academia as a journalism lecturer at Kenya Methodist University (KeMU), Nairobi Campus. Christine has been a career mentor and manager of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WANIFRA) Women In News (WIN) East Africa programme 2015-2018. She was Secretary to the Kenya Editors’ Guild (KEG) 2017-2018 and Vice Chair of the Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK) 2017.
She holds a Masters degree in Contemporary Warfare and Peace from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.
She enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles and traveling.