activities Family Planning 2020 (FP2020), Member of the Reference Group UNFPA/IPPF High-Level task force for Reproductive Health 2015, Member Global Philanthropy Committee of the Council of Foundations, Member Aspen Institute Council for Women Leaders for Reproductive Health, Member Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, Member of the International Advisory Council United World Colleges, Chair of the UWC International Board Kanyoro served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the African Population and Health Research Centre, and was for seven years the chair of the board of ISIS Work. She also serves on the boards of CARE, Intra Health, CHANGE and Legacy Memory Bank, and is a member of the World Health Organization. Recognition 1999 – Human Rights Award 1999 – Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Trinity Lutheran Seminary, (TLS) USA, for significant contribution to Christian Theology 2000 – The Wittenberg Award 2005 – designated a State Commendations of Kenya|Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear (MBS). 2005 – Women of Substance Award 2005 – Global Leadership Award, World Vision and International AIDS Trust, USA 2005 – Nominee, 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize, 2006 – Women, Leadership and Human Dignity Award 2008 – Inaugural Lecturer: Nelson Mandela Lecture Series 2011 – Changing the Face of Philanthropy 2012 – National Council for Research on Women 2012 Works Dube, Musa and Musimbi R.A. Kanyoro, eds. Grant me justice!: HIV/AIDS & gender readings of the Bible. Cluster Publications, 2004. Kanyoro, Musimbi R.A. and Nyambura J. Njoroge, eds. Groaning in Faith: African women in the household of God. Nairobi: Acton Publishers. Papers From the Interfaith Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, 1996. Kanyoro, Musimbi R.A., ed. In search of a round table: gender, theology & church leadership. Geneva: WCC Publications, 1997. Kanyoro, Musimbi R.A. and Nyambura J. Njoroge, eds. A decade of solidarity with the Bible : decade festival : visions beyond 1998. Geneva: WCC Publications, 1998. Kanyoro, Musimbi R.A., Introducing Feminist Cultural Hermeneutics: An African Perspective. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2002. Kanyoro, Musimbi R.A., Forward to The alternative Luther : Lutheran theology from the subaltern, edited by Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen. Minneapolis: Fortress Academic, 2019. Oduyoye, Mercy Amba and Musimbi R.A. Kanyoro, eds. The Will to Arise: Women, Tradition, and the Church in Africa. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2005. . References External links Global Fund for Women Legacy Memory Bank Advisory Board Kenyan activists Kenyan women activists 1953 births Living people