Rita Field-Marsham

Rita Field-Marsham Rita Field-Marsham is a Kenyan-born lawyer, philanthropist, and author. In Kenya, she founded her own law firm, Field-Marsham & Co Advocates, and served as prosecuting counsel at the State Law Office. She also provided pro bono legal services to the High Court and Court of Appeal for litigants who could not afford a lawyer. After moving to Canada in 2004, she became a director of the Kenya Scholar Access Program (KenSAP) and, from 2005 to 2010, served on the board of the Young Patron’s Circle at the Royal Ontario Museum. In 2009, she founded Knowledge Empowering Youth (KEY), a charitable program that provides turn-key libraries to schools in Africa, and she remains its CEO. In 2011,