Levis Maina Nderitu was Student in the Spotlight during the Opening of the Academic Year 2018-2019. He is the founder of the Sullivan Reed Society, whose main activities are aimed at promoting a world where the LGBT+ community is free from discrimination and persecution and also has equal opportunities in life, including access to work, study programmes and education.
In 2016, in partnership with various parties like Hivos, Sullivan Reed Society launched the Colourful Workplaces initiative, to create inclusive workplaces for the LGBT+ community in Kenya. Levis and his team do this through research, by organising round table conferences, training sessions and an annual conference. Until now Sullivan Reed has worked together with ten big multinationals, the United Nations and the Dutch embassy in Nairobi.
Levis Maina Nderitu has been selected for various fellowships. In October he is representing Erasmus University Rotterdam at the Clinton Global Initiative University in Chicago.
Student in the spotlight
By putting a student 'in the spotlight' during the Opening of the Academic Year, Erasmus University rewards inspiring initiatives: special things that students from Erasmus University do to achieve their ambitions and concrete activities with social value. Levis Maina Nderitu was chosen by the jury because diversity and inclusivity are important themes for Erasmus University. He gives a voice to the LGBT+ movement. The initiative of Levis Maina Nderitu speaks ambition and public involvement. He thus reflects the vision that Erasmus University is a university at the heart of society.
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