Fredrick Oduor Ogenga is a Professor of Media and Security Studies and the Founding Director, Center for Media, Democracy, Peace & Security (CMDPS) both at Rongo University, also serves as the CEO of The Peacemaker Corps Foundation Kenya (PCFK) and was a recipient of the 2016 Southern Voices Network for Peace building Scholarship at the Wilson Center, Washington DC. Ogenga was also a Swiss National Science Fund Visiting Research Fellow at Swisspeace, University of Basel, 2023, a UNDP Fellow, Digital Peacebuilding, 2023, a beneficiary of the 2014 and 2016 Africa Diaspora Fellowship (ADF), and a 2014 SSRC’s Africa Peacebuilding Network Grant (IRG) award. Additionally, he was a recipient of a Peacetech Lab Award on piloting AI driven Violence Tracker in Kenya. Ogenga innovated Maskani or home, a social media digital peacebuilding intervention for addressing electoral polarization and has worked as a Visiting Scholar on Media and peacebuilding at the Institute for the Advancement of Social Sciences (IASS), and Africa Studies Center, both at Boston University, and at the Institute for Policy Research, at the University of Berth. He is a Letsema Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation, and Senior Non-resident Research Fellow, Institute for Global African Affairs, University of Johannesburg and West Indies. Ogenga is also a Senior Fellow, KHK Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University, Senior Research Associate, Swisspeace, and Associate Researcher Africa Studies Center, both at the University of Basel. Ogenga is a Member, Scientific Panel on Information Integrity about Climate Science (IPIE), Chair, IPIE Scientific Panel of AI and Peacebuilding, Vice Chair, Peace and Development Research Association (PADRA), Co-chair, East Africa Hub Joint Learning Initiative (JLI), Co-chair, Peace Journalism in East Africa Network (PJEAN) and AI for Peace lead at Rongo University, Kenya. He is also a member of the Global Infotegrity Network, the International Panel for Exiting Violence (IPEV) and INTERPOL’s curriculum development Support Group Member on Biological Threat Triggers and Indicators.