Kenya Love grew up in the North East area of Omaha, NE, which is heavily impacted by extreme poverty, high crime rates, and poorer educational outcomes than surrounding communities. Her goals are to change predisposing risk factors that have plagued her community so that youth that reside in the community will have better outcomes than the generation that preceded them.

Her public health experience started early while pursuing an undergraduate degree at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Kenya has been on the forefront in bringing awareness and prevention efforts of sexually transmitted infections to the largest metropolitan area in Nebraska through her work as a Community Health Educator. In 2009, Kenya had the opportunity to broaden her public health prevention efforts by addressing the high infant mortality rates impacting African American Babies that reside in the North East area in Omaha, NE. Kenya worked with the community-based maternal and child health program, Omaha Healthy Start (OHS), to reduce racial disparities that occur in health care and health outcomes among pregnant and postpartum women and their infants. More recently in 2011, Kenya had the opportunity to address the disproportionate teen pregnancy rates in the Omaha metropolitan area through a youth development program called the Teen Outreach Project (TOP). TOP is an evidenced based program that has been proven to reduce school dropout, teen pregnancy rates, and shown to increase behaviors associated with healthy outcomes for adolescents between 12-18 years of age.

Kenya earned a bachelor’s degree in Community Health Education from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2006. She continued on with her studies and received her MPH in Community Health Education from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2010.