Adelle Onyango is a Kenyan media personality, Founder of Legally Clueless Africa and Founder of the Adelle Onyango Initiative. She has gained international recognition for her efforts to empower African women and youth and has been celebrated as one of Facebook's 2019 Icons of Change; Africa Youth Awards 100 Most Influential Young Africans for 2019; OkayAfrica’s 100 extraordinary African women for 2018; and BBC's 100 inspirational and innovative women in the world for 2017
RADIO CAREER
Adelle Onyango has over 10 years experience in the radio industry. She begun as a drive show host on 1FM where she was instrumental in bringing in a digital arch to the Kenyan radio scene.
Adelle then moved to Kenya's top media house; Radio Africa Group as a presenter on their radio station, KissFM. She hosted the mid-morning show and created a show dedicated exclusively to African music which was a first of its kind on the station. She later moved to host their prime breakfast show until June 2019.
During her time on the KissFM breakfast show it was the 3rd most listened to show in Kenya. She then left to start her new media company, Legally Clueless Africa
THE ADELLE ONYANGO INITIATIVE
Adelle is also the founder of The Adelle Onyango Initiative (AOI), an organization that works to create programs that prepare Kenyan youth for employment or entrepreneurship and give African women who have survived rape access to psyco-social support. Under the Initiative there are over 4,300 registered members who are beneficiaries of the job shadow programs and mentorship opportunities the initiative has facilitated.
AOI has also partnered with Carolina for Kibera (CFK) to create Safe 24/7, a program that will offer free group therapy and support groups for survivors of sexual violence.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Performing in New York
Adelle Onyango performed at The Moth Mainstage in New York. The Moth is an organization dedicated to the art of story telling. Adelle Onyango is a graduate of their global program and got to perform during a mainstage in New York in 2019.
Moderating a panel with H.E The President Of Kenya
Adelle Onyango moderated a panel at the launch of a youth program by the Mastercard Foundation. The panel saw different youth in Kenya ask H.E The President Of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta questions around unemployment and entrepreneurship.
Hosting & Running A Workshop at the African Women In Media Conference
Adelle Onyango hosted the 3 day African Women In Media conference which saw participants from across the continent. Adelle presented on sexual harassment in the media industry as well as run her own workshop on how media can avoid upholding gender stereotypes in their stories.