Nelson Muhia is a Research Officer in the Education and Youth Empowerment Unit at the African Population and Health Research Centre. His interests are in adolescent education and well-being, focusing on girls’ education, improving learning outcomes, life skills, parental involvement, and gender. Nelson was also a project manager of an after-school support program targeting about 2000 parent-adolescent dyads in two urban informal settlements (Korogocho and Viwandani) in Nairobi, Kenya from 2013 to 2021. The program was dubbed ‘Advancing Learning Outcomes for Transformational Change (A LOT-Change). The intervention components included homework support, mentorship in life skills, parental counseling, career awareness, service learning, digital literacy, and financial support to transition to secondary school.