Paulino Mugendi is the Founder and CEO of Trees for Kenya, an organization focused on tree planting activities, environmental conservation awareness, agroforestry training for farmers, and improving livelihoods through sustainable forestry practices. He has held leadership roles at Trees for Kenya since 2012, engaging communities in restoring degraded forest lands, greening schools, advocating water harvesting, and promoting use of energy-conserving cookstoves, landscape restoration and livelihoods improvements.