Yetnayet Asfaw Demessie
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Ethiopia
A physician by training, Asfaw has dedicated her professional and personal life to advancing the cause of girls and women for the past 18 years. …
Nour Sharara
Health Senegal
Nour is a third-generation Lebanese Senegalese whose interest in public health was spurred by observing customers at her mother’s pharmacy. She eventually went on to…
Metsehate Ayenekulu
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Ethiopia
Metsehate is a public health and gender expert who leads a program that teaches teenage brides about family planning. Her interest is in adolescent and…
Regina Agyare Honu
Governance Ghana
Regina is the CEO of Soronko Solutions. She just opened the first coding and human-centered design school for children and adults called Soronko Academy. She…
Mariama Jobarteh
Gender, Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Gambia
Mariama Jobarteh is a Gender advocate and consultant specialized in addressing Sexual and Gender-Based violence against women and girls of African Descent. As the founder…
Masooma Ranalvi
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights India
Masooma is an activist who leads efforts to advance the goal of ending female genital mutilation in India by working closely with members of her…
Jacques Sebisaho
Health Congo, Democratic Republic of the (Zaire)
Jacques Sebisaho is Co-Founder & Executive Director of Amani Global Works. Jacques holds a Medical Degree from the National University of Rwanda, an Executive Degree…
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…
Loice Ombajo
Health Kenya
Loice Achieng Ombajo is an infectious disease specialist and senior lecturer at the University of Nairobi Department of Medicine. She chairs Kenya’s national working group…
Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa, Esq.
Gender, Governance Zambia
Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa is an international lawyer and expert in African commercial affairs, who served as the executive director of Financial Sector Deepening Uganda, a…
Alice Ruhweza
Environment Uganda
Alice joined WWF as Regional Director for Africa in July 2019. Her role is to develop and lead WWF in Africa so that it is…
Genoveva Islas
Health CA, United States
Genoveva works as the founder and director of the non-profit Cultiva la Salud, which works to promote health equity in the San Joaquin Valley of…
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