Alice Wairimu Nderitu is a Kenyan peace mediator who served as a Commissioner of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) from 2009–2013

In this role, she helped lead Kenya’s post-2008 reconciliation efforts. According to a 2012 profile, in the aftermath of the 2007–08 election violence she joined the newly created NCIC to “mediate ethnic and race-related conflict and promote peaceful coexistence”. During her NCIC tenure, she spearheaded peace education initiatives and hate-speech prevention measures: for example, she helped develop a national peace-education curriculum for schools, produced television programming on ethnic harmony, and advocated for the implementing Kenya’s hate-speech laws. 

By 2012 she had built a reputation for leading mediation teams in Kenya’s conflict hotspots and for pushing women’s inclusion in traditional elder councils.