Otieno is senior lecturer of Educational Planning and Policy Studies Research at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. She is an educator, mentor and trainer of trainers and researcher on quality learning pedagogy and education policy including teaching and learning instructional methods for children and adults - face to face and virtual. Otieno continues with research work in early learning with various organizations including UNICEF on “Let’s Play, Spaces for Kids to be Kids” research, EdTech ongoing research on “Digitized Personalized Learning for children – PP1 &PP2 in Kenya. She is instrumental in ensuring that the relevant methods are used in research with children to generate reliable and valid data for policy influence, education and development and advocacy. She is also founder of Siprosa Anyango Foundation that runs a low cots kindergarten - Futures Green Schools, that is embedded in environmental materials for play to help children have fun, laugh and learn!