A Founder's Voice
Two truths can coexist. Women are doing better, and that is a victory we should never undo. But there are still women suffering in silence. And there are men who have been left behind, never given permission to feel, never given language for their trauma, raised to carry weight that was never meant to be carried alone.
Naomi Kerubo Matunda founded the Renah Foundation on a simple but urgent belief: that healing is possible for every person, family, and community when faith, knowledge, and compassionate care meet.
Born and raised in Kenya, Naomi moved to the United States at 19, carrying the values, resilience, and community spirit of her upbringing. She built a nursing career spanning more than 15 years, caring for people in some of the hardest seasons of their lives. Through that work, she saw firsthand how unaddressed pain, trauma, and silence shape lives across generations, and how rarely people are given a safe place to name what they carry.
That experience became a calling. Naomi came to see that emotional wounds, often passed quietly from one generation to the next, remain one of the least addressed barriers to flourishing in Kenyan families and communities. She holds a particular conviction that boys and men, whose pain so often goes unspoken, have been underserved in the conversation about empowerment and healing, until now.
The Renah Foundation was born to change that. Through the Youth Mental Wellness Network, Women's Healing Circles, Men's Healing Circles, and Faith Leader Mental Health Training, the Foundation creates spaces where young people, women, men, and the leaders they trust can learn, heal, and grow together, in both the United States and Kenya.
Naomi is pursuing a Bachelor's in Psychology and a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Walden University, bringing together clinical understanding and a deep Christian faith in the work of restoration. She is also a business owner in Spokane, Washington, and an author with Renah Publishing, whose faith-centered journals extend the Foundation's message of gratitude and healing.
Above all, Naomi is a wife and mother. She lives in Spokane with her husband, Reuben, and their three sons. She leads the Renah Foundation with the same hope she holds for her own family: that the next generation will inherit healing rather than hurt.
"Healing one heart can change a family. Healing a family can change a generation."
Naomi Kerubo Matunda, RN · President & Founder
