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We support locally-rooted, globally networked innovative leaders around the globe through our Fellowship programs. Explore our community database below to learn more.

Akebe Luther King Abia

Akebe Luther King Abia

Health
Cameroon

Akebe is a true One Health leader. Akebe fell in love with environmental microbiology in school, curious about the environmental causes of human disease. Akebe…

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Mojirayo Oluwatoyin Ogunlana

Mojirayo Oluwatoyin Ogunlana

Education
Nigeria

Mojirayo Oluwatoyin Ogunlana is a digital rights lawyer on a mission to establish a legal framework at national and regional levels that safeguards a free…

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Fatou Ndow

Fatou Ndow

Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship, Health
Gambia

Fatou Ndow is an experienced public health program leader specialising in HIV, sexual & reproductive health and nutrition. She uses research; to design, implement and…

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Mercy Lung’aho

Mercy Lung’aho

Food Security
Kenya

Mercy is a Research Scientist for the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). She is an experienced nutritionist and research scientist with expertise in nutrition-sensitive…

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Quinny Sanchez Lopez

Quinny Sanchez Lopez

Education, Social Justice - Equity
NC, United States

Quinny Sanchez Lopez (she/they) is an engagement specialist and advocate focused on cultivating networks of care and resilience among people of Latin American descent. Drawing…

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Marlene Cerritos-Rivas

Marlene Cerritos-Rivas

Health
MA, United States

Marlene Cerritos-Rivas (she/ella) is a health equity advocate and a community organizer at heart. Her passion for ensuring every person has access to quality health…

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Aaron “AJ” Johnson

Aaron “AJ” Johnson

Food Security
OK, United States

Aaron “AJ” Johnson is the Founder and CEO of Oasis FreshMarkets, the first full-service supermarket in North Tulsa’s historically black-neighborhood — once called ‘Black Wall…

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Folake Kio-Olayinka

Folake Kio-Olayinka

Health
Nigeria

Folake Olayinka is a physician and global health leader with extensive experience in immunization, maternal and child health, malaria, HIV, and health systems strengthening. Since…

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Salif Romano Niang

Salif Romano Niang

Food Security
Mali

Salif is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Malô, a Malian social enterprise focused on improving the lives of smallholder rice farmers by building up…

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Francisca Mutapi

Francisca Mutapi

Health
Zimbabwe

Francisca Mutapi is a Zimbabwean professor of global health infection and immunity, co-director of the Global Health Academy at the University of Edinburgh, and Deputy…

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Sonali Vaid

Sonali Vaid

Health
India

Sonali Vaid is a physician and a public health specialist. For over a decade she has focused on the application of quality improvement science to…

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Tlaleng Mofokeng

Tlaleng Mofokeng

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
South Africa

Tlaleng Mofokeng is a South African physician and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, campaigning for universal health access, HIV care, and…

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The Aspen Global Innovators Group supports flagship fellowship programs. These fellowships enable leaders to amplify their voices, visibility and impact. Leaders bring expertise from all sectors and include entrepreneurs, community organizers and local experts who are both proximate to the greatest health and development challenges of our time and also bring lived and learned experience to their solutions.