L. muthoni Wanyeki is a political scientist who works on development communications, gender and human rights and has published in these fields.  She is currently the Executive Director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), a national, non-governmental organisation working towards the enjoyment of all human rights by all Kenyans through research, advocacy and civic action.   She was previously, for seven years, the Executive Director of the African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEmNET), a pan-African membership organisation working towards African women's development, equality and other human rights through advocacy at the regional and international levels, training on gender analysis and mainstreaming and communications.

She serves as a Board member/regional advisor for several Kenyan and other organisations including: the African Leadership Centre (ALC and African Women's Fellowship Programme of the Conflict, Security and Development Group (CSDG) of King's College London (KCL); the Afrimap Project and the Justice Initiative-Africa of the Open Society Initiative
(OSI) in Johannesburg and Abuja respectively; Akina mama wa Afrika
(AmwA) in Kampala; and the Forum International de montreal (FIm); and the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in Nairobi.  She also writes a column for the East African, a sub-regional weekly published by the Nation media Group (NmG) in Nairobi.