Karen Lucas
“A table anyone should be happy to pull up a chair at. Being a part of a womens' podcasting festival is an incredible position to be after all the years of sweat, blood and tears. Not something I suggest anyone should miss.”
Karen Lucas
Kaz is a certified sex educator, award winning activist, musician and 2021 TED fellow/speaker. She is an established leader in the Kenyan arts and culture ecosystem. Having begun her career in 1997 as a rapper/singer, she has gone on to run creative ventures and projects cutting across the performing arts, media production, digital marketing and innovative events that shape the industrial standard. Kaz has had a lifelong passion for changing the way sex education is taught to young people. Driven by this passion and enabled by her media experience, she started The Spread Podcast.
The Spread is a sex positive podcast that only exists because there is no comprehensive sex education in Kenya. Information about sex is rooted in the negative consequences: HIV and AIDS and unwanted pregnancies. But while these are some real consequences, there’s need to highlight all the positive things that can come out of healthy, informed and consensual sexual practices. The Spread provides a platform advocating for comprehensive sexuality and consent education in our academic institutions. At the festival Kaz will be a Global Voices Panellist.