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Graph · Person
Mercy Mutemi
01 · In focus
One person, in the field.
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02 · Connections
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03 · Background
From the source record.
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Nairobi-based litigator; managing partner of Kenyan firm Nzili & Sumbi Advocates and founder and executive director of The Oversight Lab, an African civil-society response to systemic technology harms that she established in mid-2025. Lead Kenyan counsel in the litigation against Meta and Sama brought by Daniel Motaung and by 185 former Facebook content moderators challenging their mass dismissal — cases on which she works alongside Foxglove as its self-described "Kenyan counsel", and also lead counsel in the Kenyan suit brought by Ethiopian nationals alleging Facebook's algorithm amplified hate speech during the Tigray war. Named to the TIME100 Next list in 2023 and a 2025 Ford Global Fellow.
04 · Sources
Where this came from.
5 sources listed from the pinned corpus. Links are shown only when the source URL is a valid HTTP(S) address.
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mercymutemi.com
Checked 2026-05-12Mutemi's own professional portfolio site, describing her litigation practice and giving an @nzilisumbi.com contact
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prnewswire.com
Checked 2026-05-12April 2025 Ford Foundation press release announcing the Global Fellowship cohort, naming Mutemi as managing partner of Nzili & Sumbi Advocates and executive director of The Oversight Lab in Kenya
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fordfoundation.org
Checked 2026-05-12February 2026 Ford Foundation interview in which Mutemi describes founding The Oversight Lab approximately eight months earlier as a systemic African response to tech harms
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foxglove.org.uk
Checked 2026-05-12Foxglove's September 2024 press release describing Mutemi as "our Kenyan counsel" on the 185 former Facebook content moderators' jurisdictional appeal
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codastory.com
Checked 2026-05-12Coda Story long-read on Mutemi's litigation against Meta and OpenAI in Kenya, and her TIME100 Next 2023 listing
Source: entities/persons/person-mercy-mutemi.md in movement-graph at pin 3cc1a36.