Has spent time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Harvard Knight Science Journalism Fellow, and obtained her Bachelors of Arts in Literature from Makerere University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from the Uganda Management Institute. Since 2010, she has been a Mentor with the World Federation of Science Journalists programme and is also the Founder of Health Journalists Network in Uganda (HEJNU) www.hejnu.com. She has published extensively, including with The East African (www.theeastafrican.co.ke), Nature (www.nature.com), SciDev (www.scidev.net), IRIN/PlusNews (www.plusnews.org), Onislam (www.onislam.net) and the Network of Climate Journalists for the Greater Horn of Africa (NECJOGAH) website – www.necjogha.org.