Grace Ngugi Maina is a deputy director in charge of special programmes at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development. She has 8 years of teaching and 22 years of experience in curriculum development. Her passion is in engaging and advocating for inclusion of social emotional learning ,life skills education, values education, parental empowerment, mentorship, child care and protection, career guidance, psychometric, disaster risk reduction education, and education in emergency. Grace is an author, amd possess a wealth of knowledge on matters of education. She has facilitated many educational related forums nationally and internationally. Grace is a member of Karanga: The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills; of KICD Management; and is an accredited counsellor supervisor. She holds a master's degree in Education (Guidance & Counselling), a National Higher Diploma in Psychological Counselling, and is currently a Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology.