Olga Marlin (November 12, 1934 – January 5, 2025) was an American-born educator based in Kenya.
She is the author of To Africa with a Dream and a founding member of Kianda School, Nairobi, Kenya, which started in 1961 as Kianda Secretarial College, and was the first multi-racial girls' school in East Africa.
Olga Emily Marlin was born in New York City on November 12, 1934,[1][2] and studied modern languages at Trinity College Dublin, from which she received her MA degree in 1956.
[3] In 1960, she was sent by Saint Josemaria Escriva to Kenya, at a time when few African women had any access to a formal education, and in 1961 she began, together with other women, Kianda College, a secretarial college that was open to women of all races,[3][4] which in 1993 became part of Strathmore University.
[citation needed] Marlin died January 5, 2025, at the age of 90.