Professor Okech’s teaching and research sits at the nexus of gender, sexuality, conflict, and security studies. Alongside her teaching, she is the founding Director of the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice, which focuses on the majority world as geographies from which to build feminist imaginaries of “race”. Prior to joining School of Oriental and African Studies, she worked for over a decade in the development sector across various sub-regions in Africa, supporting women’s rights organisations and local movements working at the intersection of gender and conflict. This work remains central to her research, teaching and public-facing work.