Simon Mitambo

Simon Mitambo is an Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner, cosmology expert and teacher of the ancient ancestral wisdom of the Tharaka people, an indigenous local community located in the Eastern part of Kenya.

He is a knowledge expert at the UN Harmony with Nature Initiative. He is a Co-Founder of the Society for Alternative Learning and Transformation and The Kithino Learning Centre, an emerging centre for animating, stimulating, awakening and nurturing regeneration of Nature and Culture in Kenya. He is a Core Member of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, seeking to create solidarity networks for alternatives. Simon is working with the Society for Alternative Learning and Transformation (SALT) as the Chief Executive Officer.

He has served as the General Coordinator of the African Biodiversity Network (ABN). ABN works to revitalize indigenous and local knowledge systems and practices to protect bio-cultural diversity in Africa. Simon has wealth of experience in accompanying communities across Africa. He uses community-based tools and methodologies like community dialogues, nature experiential learning, bio-cultural maps and seasonal calendars to de-school the society and decolonize mind sets from the dominant reductionist industrial system that is anthropocentric in thinking and to develop strategies alternative civilization. Simon possesses a graduate degree in Sociology and Linguistics from the University of Nairobi and a Master’s in Public Policy and Governance from Kenyatta University.