Kakenya Ntaiya, the founder and president of the Kakenya Center for Excellence, will talk about her journey, her dream for the girls of her village and what she has accomplished with the Center for Excellence. With the Center, the first and only primary school for girls in a remote village in Kenya, Kakenya is transforming attitudes from the traditional beliefs of early childhood marriage and female genital mutilation to the value of education for girls. The Center opened in 2009 with 32 girls in residence and hopes to enroll 150 girls in grades 4th through 8th.