Joyce Waithira is a Research Associate at the Kula Vyema Centre of Food Economics. She has over 5 years of experience in data collection, data management, survey scripting, and report writing for developmental projects. She is currently finalizing her research thesis at the University of Nairobi. She is responsible for data management, analytics, survey programming, and contributing to KVC’s various research outputs. She has knowledge and experience in STATA and R for data management and analytics and possesses skills in survey programming using Survey CTO, ODK, Kobo Toolbox, and CSPro.

Before joining the KVC team, Joyce worked as a Research Assistant at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) contributing to survey programming using Cspro, data management using STATA, and developing and executing qualitative data collection tools. She worked as a field facilitator at Techno Serve and worked as an enumerator in various behavioral studies.