Angie Elma Okuta

Angie Elma Okuta is a Research Intern at MMK Consult, based in Nairobi, Kenya. She supports the firm's research and policy work under the supervision of MMK's lead consultant and partners, and is part of how MMK develops early-career research talent inside its evidence-led standard.

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Angie is reading for a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies at Strathmore University. Her academic focus — global affairs, policy, and international relations — pairs directly with MMK's research and advisory work, where questions often sit at the intersection of policy, evidence, and stakeholders.

As a Policy Intern at the Australian High Commission, Angie conducts media monitoring across six accredited East African countries, writes briefs and reports on the socio-economic environment of those countries, drafts diplomatic correspondence, conducts stakeholder mapping, and supports event organisation. Earlier, as a Research and Communications Attachee at the Sinapis Organization, she developed and implemented a research plan, presented briefs, acted as a rapporteur, and documented consultants' key deliverables.

That experience gives her a practical research toolkit: turning monitoring and source material into clear briefs, mapping the people and institutions behind an issue, and documenting work so it can be reviewed and built on. Outside formal roles, she revived Strathmore's Kenya Model United Nations chapter and has held leadership positions across Model UN and youth-policy platforms, including the Children and Youth Major Group to UNEP — sharpening her public-speaking, governance, and stakeholder-engagement skills.

At MMK, Angie's intern role is to support research, policy analysis, media and source monitoring, stakeholder mapping, and briefing — building toward associate-level research responsibility over time. She works in English and intermediate French.