Chapter Five: From One Scholarship to Harvard Law
Chris Mburu’s academic path expanded far beyond what anyone in his village might have expected. After secondary school, he attended the University of Nairobi to study law. His trajectory did not slow there. It widened.Child Care
He later earned a Master of Laws at Harvard University.Visual Art & Design
Eventually, he joined the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, working on issues of accountability for genocide and mass atrocity crimes.
It is an extraordinary transformation when viewed in full: from a rural Kenyan school dependent on uncertain fees, to the institutional heart of global human rights law.
But Chris himself has often emphasized something simpler. That none of it would have been possible without continuity. Without someone, somewhere, ensuring that he remained in school long enough for possibility to mature.
That someone, as he eventually learned, was Hilde Back.
