Susan Murabana Owen is the president of African Planetarium Association. She is the co-founder and the CEO of The Travelling Telescope, a social enterprise dedicated to promoting astronomy in Africa. Her team takes their large portable telescopes and mobile planetarium to schools and public spaces, engaging students and families in the oldest science. The Travelling Telescope also partners with lodges educating and entertaining tourists about the beautiful unpolluted equatorial Kenyan night skies. Her company recently built a fixed planetarium “The Nairobi Planetarium” in the heart of Nairobi with a bamboo dome. In addition to these programs, her company is the youth partner of Airbus Foundation through Airbus Little Engineers – a robotics space program targeting Kenyan school kids. Through the school outreach programs, The Travelling Telescope team has reached hundreds of thousands of kids individually. Susan is a United Nations Space4Women mentor 2020, she serves as the national co-ordinator of Astronomers without Borders and Universe Awareness. She is passionate about quality education for all and gender equality.
