Wakanyi Macharia-Hoffman is an African indigenous scholar born and raised near one of Kenya’s oldest forests. She is an internationally recognized speaker working at the intersection of Ubuntu ethics and AI technology to promote African relational intelligence in AI systems. She is the lead PhD researcher for Responsible African AI at the Inclusive AI Lab at Utrecht University and has a master’s in Development Education from University College London (UCL). She founded the African Folktales Project, a digital knowledge common that treats folktales as living archives of Indigenous relational ethics, ecological intelligence, and social knowledge, now serving over 21,000 teachers across the African continent on the Ubuntu Education Hub online platform. Her children’s books—including Sala, Mountain Warrior —extend this work through literature that dignifies African heritage and ways of knowing. As a senior fellow at The New Institute, she contributed to research on non-material conceptions of human flourishing, aimed at reformulating the Sustainable Development Goals. As a result, her chapter on Ubuntu is included in an upcoming Bloomsbury-published book on Human Flourishing. She sits on the advisory board of the IDG Foundation (Inner Development Goals) and the Global Citizens Assembly. She is also a champion of children’s education in Kenya and a founding board member of the Kenya Education Fund.