She is the founder and president of the Kakenya Center for Excellence, a primary boarding school for girls in the Maasai village of Enoosaen.

[4] The center requires that parents agree not to subject their enrolled daughters to female genital mutilation[5] (FGM/C) or forced marriage.

[8] Maasai tradition and culture dictated that Ntaiya should be engaged around the age of five, undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) as a teenager, and then leave school to marry.

Instead, she negotiated with her father that she would undergo FGM if that meant she could continue her education and complete high school.

[10] Ntaiya went on to earn a Doctorate in Education from the University of Pittsburgh, where she was the recipient of the Sheth International Young Alumni Achievement Award.