Mactilda Mbenywe is a fellow of the Constructive Institute’s Climate Explorer Programme. The 30-year-old is a passionate multimedia science journalist with the Standard Group, a mainstream media house in Kenya. 

She has a knack for environment, climate, and health stories. She has a mission to uncover cross-border critical issues on both land and marine biodiversity through data-based multimedia storytelling. Mactilda has covered global conversations on environmental issues such as the COP UN Climate Summits, the UN Environment Programme Summit and the UN Environment Assembly. She has won an Annual Journalism Excellence Award for her reporting on how climate change spurs mental crises.