Her name is Michelle Boit. She was born and raised in Tulwet, Uasin Gishu County in the 80s.Her father was a professor of Biochemical Engineering at Moi University and her mother an administrator at the same university. It was in high school where her passion for the sciences blossomed, and she decided she wanted to be an engineer. However good she was in sciences, she got ‘B’ grades and did not make the cut-off points required to pursue chemical engineering studies in Kenya, so she took an accounting course she didn’t like. Her father noticed and took her to the US to pursue her dream.
She then joined Texas Tech University to study chemical engineering where she graduated with a first-class degree and became Kenya’s first female petroleum engineer. She has worked at British Petroleum (BP) Oil and Gas in Amarillo, Texas, Wamsutter in Wyoming ,Farmington in New Mexico and Tullow Oil exploratin as East Africa Well Services Engineer, managing and maintaining all Tullow Oil Company wells in Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia until 2019.
She then started her own consultancy firm and got her first contract with Glencore Oil Company in Chad.She is the founder of Michelle Boit Mentorship Program in Kenya that aims to mentor and empower students, graduates, and young professionals in leadership. She has made it her mission to encourage girls to take up courses in STEM.
They have mentored more than 1,000 students. About 80 per cent of our mentees are from Kenya while the rest are from other countries in East Africa, Mozambique, the US and the United Kingdom.
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