Grace Sitati is a Doctoral Researcher in the International Doctorate Programme at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) supervised by Prof. Dr. Markus Krajewski and a Research Assistant at the University of Bayreuth, a participating university in the programme, where she is affiliated with the Chair of African Legal Studies under Prof. Dr. Thoko Kaime. She holds an LL.M. in Regional Integration and East African Community Law from the Tanzanian-German Centre for Eastern African Legal Studies (TGCL), University of Dar es Salaam; a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law; and an LL.B. from Moi University, Kenya. She has a keen interest in the intersection of Business and Human Rights, Regional Integration, and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). She is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Kenya Branch) and a Certified Professional Mediator (MTI). Grace has served as a Legal Officer at the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission of Kenya and previously as a Legal Compliance Associate at Manyonge Wanyama & Associates LLP in Nairobi.

Grace’s doctoral research focuses on the plight of digital platform workers in the Global South, using Kenya as a case study. Adopting a human rights-based perspective, her research analyses corporate accountability and access to effective remedies for unfair labour practices in digital labour platforms in Kenya. It explores how existing frameworks are largely designed for traditional employment, thus limiting the protection of platform workers in the era of digital labour from the unfair labour practices caused by corporate platforms and their intermediaries.