Constant Cap
Code for Africa Senior Product Manager
Nairobi
Constant Cap is the Senior Product Manager at Code for Africa’s ‘sensors.AFRICA' citizen science program. He has a Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Nairobi, Kenya and an undergraduate Education degree in Geography and Mathematics from the same. He writes and comments about urban planning issues online and in local and global media and on his blog www.africancityplanner.com. Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya he is passionate about the planning issues facing African Cities. He has a deep interest in sustainable mobility, urban resilience and inclusive planning. He sits on the Socially Just Public Transport Working Group, which has been key in advocating for a socially just approach towards urban mobility in Kenya. He is also involved in the Equitable Mobility for City Health and Wellbeing research project, which seeks to understand the urban infrastructure and mobility interactions of vulnerable groups in space and time. He has also been involved in several projects in the urban planning and transportation space including expert advisory and support to the Nairobi NMT knowledge lab, advisor and mentor at the transformative urban mobility accelerator project and a site project leader at the Implementing Creative Methodologies in Integrated Sustainable Transport research project. He has also been involved in other advocacy projects that touch on urban evictions, transparency and accountability in physical planning and solid waste management. He is a Graduate Member of the Town and County Planners Association of Kenya and a member of the International Society of Urban and Regional Planners (ISOCARP). He has previously worked at the Strathmore University Advancement Office and as the Executive Director of Kilimani Project Foundation. Constant is also a director and convener at Naipolitans, a ‘think and do’ tank within the Nairobi urban planning space.