Donna Pido

Donna Pido is an American anthropologist with 5 decades of professional experience in jewelry and product design.  She holds a PhD in applied Anthropology from Columbia University in New York.  She has assembled and deposited several collections of Kenyan material culture in American and European museums and has written extensively on Maasai art among other topics related to esthetic production in Kenya.  She has been teaching design at TUK since 2012 and is also the former chair of the College of Arms in the Office of the Attorney General. Prof. Pido is an active member of the Kenya Quilt Guild and the Kenya Embroiderers Guild.