Samante Anne

An Indigenous woman from the Maasai pastoralist community in Southern Kenya, currently serving as the Head of Programs and Partnerships at Mainyoito Pastoralists Integrated Development Organization (MPIDO). Additionally, she is the National Coordinator of the Indigenous Peoples National Steering Committee on Climate Change, a network mobilizing indigenous communities in Kenya to address climate change challenges.

With over 10 years of experience in Indigenous issues, her expertise spans environment and climate change, land and natural resources rights, gender equality, and local livelihoods and food security. She excels in institutional and Indigenous capacity building, project monitoring and evaluation, grant management, strategic planning, financial management, procurement, and resource mobilization.

She holds a Master of Business Administration in Strategic Management and a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) in Nairobi. She is pursuing a Doctorate in Leadership and Governance at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in Nairobi.

Samante is the Permanent Indigenous Peoples Committee (PIPC) representative for the Anglophone Africa subregion.