Dorcas Wangira
Dorcas Wangira is a Kenyan journalist and reporter. With a report on the harm caused by female genital mutilation and the hope offered by five tech-savvy teenage girls, she won the 2019 International Centre for Journalists (IFCJ) Michael Eliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling. Out of 218 applicants, her report titled "The App and The Cut" which was aired on KTN News in June 2018 was selected as the winning report . Education. Wangira attended Moi University where she studied Communication and Public Relations. Career. While in school, she had the opportunity to intern with the Standard  Media Group in February 2014 after winning a joint competition sponsored by the Standard Group and UNDP. Prior to that she worked and the Communications Commission of Kenya. After working with KTN news of the Standard Group at Kakamega for more than two years, in June 2017 she left to be a freelance journalist. Later she worked with Citizen TV, a renowned television station in Kenya, owned by Royal Media Services. She spent two weeks at The Economist in the United Kingdom.