
Damaris Matoke-Muhia
Health Kenya
Damaris is a molecular biology scientist working on the control of vector borne diseases. She holds a PhD in Molecular Medicine and a Masters in…


Mojisola Ojebode
Food Security Nigeria
Mojisola Karigidi is an early-career scientist and lecturer in the field of biochemistry with special interest in functional foods, medicinal plants and their role in…


Emma Naluyima
Food Security Uganda
Dr. Emma Naluyima is a smallholder farmer in Uganda and a private veterinarian focusing on clinical medicine and herd health. She has previously worked for…


Ariong Moses
Education Uganda
Having studied in the rural schools of Eastern and Northern Uganda, Moses narrowly missed being abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in 2000…


Clare Byarugaba
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Uganda
Clare is one of the only five LGBTI rights advocates in Uganda. Under her portfolio as the Equality and Non-Discrimination program at Chapter Four Uganda,…


Dixon Chibanda
Health Zimbabwe
Dixon, a trained psychiatrist, is a Wellcome researcher and DELTAS Africa awardee at the University of Zimbabwe. Dixon is also a Director of the African…


Dorothy Tuma
Governance Uganda
Dorothy’s family fled her native Uganda during the reign of Idi Amin, joining hundreds and soon thousands of Ugandan exiles in neighboring Kenya where they…


Margaret Nigba
Gender, Governance Liberia
Margaret is founder and executive director of Her Voice Liberia, which provides legal services and access to justice for marginalized and vulnerable women and girls…


Stellah Bosire
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Kenya
Born and raised in Kibera, the largest slum in Africa, she has lived in a community that was marginalized both socially and economically. Stellah is…


Ana Michelle Dubon Estrada
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Guatemala
Michelle is an OBGYN and medical director at WINGS Guatemala, which provides services to thousands of people each year. “Before I could even speak, I…


Maulik Sisodia
Environment India
“If you work for water, you are working for every dimension of development,” says Maulik Sisodia, the executive director of Tarun Bharat Sangh, a water-focused…


Deborah Nakatudde
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Uganda
Nakatudde Deborah is the founder and Executive Director of Serving Lives Under Marginalization -SLUM an organization in Uganda that provides SRHR services, HIV prevention, care…
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