
Mrs. Sally Musonye
Sally Musonye is an Electrical Engineer at the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) and past chair for Women in Engineering Kenya.
Sally holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Nairobi (UoN). She is a qualified and registered engineer with the Engineers Board of Kenya (EBK) and The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She serves as the Treasurer for the Kenya Section, Chairperson for the Power and Energy Society (PES), Publicity regional rep (Africa) for YESIST12, and Region 8 (Africa) co-coordinator for the Students’ Virtual Speakers Bureau. She is a recipient of the KPLC Excellence Award for outstanding performance and the Kenya Section Women in Engineering (WiE) Achievement Award.
She has been a speaker, organizer and facilitator in local and global conferences on Power, Energy, Leadership, and Strategic Plan development within IEEE and beyond. She is actively involved in mentorship, women empowerment, and community development through her representation as the founder of AshGold Africa.
Recently, she published a strategic paper on The Perceived Role of Innovation in Operationalizing Decentralization of Organizational Operations in Utility Companies: Case Study of Kenya Power.
This year, she is a finalist in the YALI East Africa -Young Women in African Power Leadership Program by Power Africa and USAID among over 500 applicants in Eastern and Central Africa. She is implementing a HAC/SIGHT funded project, ElimuSafe, that seeks to provide foot-operated hand washing stations to a school in rural Kenya as a mitigation measure against COVID-19.