# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josephine-kulea
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:35:07.386Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josephine-kulea"
name: "Josephine Kulea"
slug: "josephine-kulea"
description: "Josephine Kulea is a Kenyan women's rights campaigner. Rescued from female genital mutilation and forced marriage as a child, she has since set up the Samburu Girls Foundation, which has saved more than 1,000 girls from similar practices. Kulea was recognised as an \"unsung heroine\" by US ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger in 2011."
tagline: "Kenyan feminist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josephine_Kulea_of_Samburu_Girls_Foundation.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1984"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.74
  momentum:             19.92156862745098
  historical:           8.338409333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "জোচেফিন কুলিয়া"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Kulea"
    title: "Josephine Kulea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Kulea"
    title: "Josephine Kulea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Kulea"
    title: "Josephine Kulea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Kulea"
    title: "Josephine Kulea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Kulea"
    title: "Josephine Kulea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Kulea"
    title: "Josephine Kulea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Kulea"
    title: "Josephine Kulea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Kulea"
    title: "Josephine Kulea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28018823"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump