POWERHOUSE GLOBAL STARS
POWERHOUSE GLOBAL STARS INTERVIEW WITH
RUTH SHALOM KINYUA (RSK) PGS: Ruth, good to have you on today’s interview with Lady Anita. RSK: Thank you Lady Anita. Connecting with you for this interview was a serendipitous encounter. Nevertheless, I am grateful to you for extending the opportunity to be featured in Powerhouse Global Stars. PGS: Please briefly introduce yourself to our readers. RSK: My full name is Ruth Shalom Wambui Kinyua. I am ambitious, self-driven and a risk-taker.
switch educational systems.
I moved to Wellesley,
More so because I was initially
Massachusetts in 2015 to study
At fifteen years old, I was
offered a conditional one-
entrepreneurship. Somehow,
year scholarship. Thankfully, I
I managed to pack a lot into
thrived!
those four years. From being
fortunate to receive a full scholarship to a Swiss boarding school, Aiglon Switzerland. Born and raised wholly in Kenya with minimal multicultural exposure, it was a tremendous leap of faith to leave my high school midway, move to a continent I had never been to before and
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elected as a class senator in I completed my IGCSE during
the Student Government, to
that first year (2012) and
serving as an Equity Analyst
excelled in the two-year
in the Babson College Fund
International Baccalaureate
(optimizing returns on a $4
program. Selected to join the
million portion of Babson’s
prestigious Global Scholars
endowment fund) and
Program at Babson College,
graduating from the Honors
