Lilian Namuma S. Kong’ani is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Cape Town, currently co-leading governance research and stakeholder engagement on a project, “Cascading Climate and Health Risks in African Cities.” She has a Ph.D. in Environmental Governance and Management (University of Nairobi). She is a mediator, an alumna fellow at the Mawazo Learning Exchange Programme, Mawazo Institute, Kenya, and the Laureate of the 2022 African Peacebuilding Network of Social Science Research Council Individual Research Fellowship grant. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and participated in several local and international conferences. Kong’ani is interested and passionate in areas spanning natural resources governance and management, climate change, community development, conflict resolution, peacebuilding, gender mainstreaming, environmental impact assessment, sustainable development, and humanitarian work, among others. Previously, Kong’ani worked as a tutorial fellow/lecturer at the University of Nairobi. She believes in taking on new challenges and contributing to solutions to local and global development and environmental issues for inter- and intra-generational equity.