Pauline is the Program Director of Future First Kenya, which is part of a global movement to build alumni communities in public schools. Their goal is to help strengthen public education systems and create fairer societies by engaging former students as career role models, sports coaches, mentors and governors at their old schools. In 2011 she founded Living in a Shanty Town, a network of support to address the aspiration gap of young people born in poverty. She sits on the Civicus Board and is a director for the African Social Entrepreneurs Network.