{"id":2524,"date":"2023-03-30T20:28:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/?page_id=2524"},"modified":"2025-07-12T01:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T01:43:47","slug":"about-susan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/about-susan\/","title":{"rendered":"About Susan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row equal_height=&#8221;true&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;false&#8221;][vc_column full_height=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1680208119439{background-image: url(http:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-30-at-4.11.41-PM.png?id=2514) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-xs-12&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1419024612249{padding-top: 60px !important;padding-right: 60px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;background-color: #181818 !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;custom_class&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-xs-12&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1752284619588{background-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Story Supervisor<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">, <\/span><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/thegreattitisabird.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">The Great Tit is a Bird<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Susan Osiche<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:15px;\"><\/aside>[vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;show-for-large-up&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Susan Achieng Osiche (she \/ her pronouns) is the story supervisor and community manager for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Great Tit is a Bird<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for which she focuses on cultural sensitivity and relevance. She is also Founder\/CEO of Inua Kike (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWomen Rising\u201d in Kiswahili), a grassroots organization that develops education, entrepreneurship and leadership programs to promote inclusive girls\u2019 and women\u2019s empowerment in the urban slum communities and rural areas of Kenya.<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inua Kike is based on Susan\u2019s own experience growing up in a Nairobi slum. She was forced to drop out of school due to social and economic challenges, got married at an early age, faced uncertainties that came with gender-based violence in her marriage, divorced and struggled in providing for herself and the young child she had then. After a couple of years, she was able to rejoin classes that led to her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). She later furthered her education in Project Management (a certificate and a diploma), and is now currently pursuing a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Community Development. Guided by her own life struggles, she strives to empower and tell the stories of young women who are in the same predicament as she was. She brings this passion and experience to her work on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Great Tit is a Bird.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:15px;\"><\/aside><a class=\"btn accent large \" href=\"https:\/\/solve.mit.edu\/challenges\/elevateprize\/solutions\/21044\"  target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\">Inua Kike<\/a><aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:15px;\"><\/aside><a class=\"btn accent large \" href=\"https:\/\/thegreattitisabird.com\"  target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\">&#x1f99c;<\/a>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row equal_height=&#8221;true&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;false&#8221;][vc_column full_height=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1680208119439{background-image: url(http:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-30-at-4.11.41-PM.png?id=2514) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-xs-12&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1419024612249{padding-top: 60px !important;padding-right: 60px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;background-color: #181818 !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;custom_class&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-xs-12&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1752284619588{background-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]Story Supervisor, The Great Tit is a Bird Susan Osiche [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;show-for-large-up&#8221;] Susan Achieng Osiche (she \/ her pronouns) is the story supervisor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2685,"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2524\/revisions\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}