
Nafisatu Chinery
Environment Ghana
Chinery is passionate about promoting women’s rights in African countries. In her role at AWDF, she works with women-led organizations to build their leadership and…


Primah Kwagala
Governance, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Uganda
Primah has handled cases involving patients, illegal detentions in health facilities, access to emergency obstetric care, access to free vital medicines, and has led teams…


Edinah Masiyiwa
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Zimbabwe
Edinah directs an NGO that promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights in Zimbabwe. “My passion for women’s rights and gender equality is derived from…


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. …


Kapil Mohabir
Food Security Guyana
Kapil has wanted to help smallholder farmers since he was a small boy. When his family was forced to abandon their first home along the…


Timothy Egwelu
Health Uganda
Timothy is the first (and apparently still the only) deaf lawyer in Uganda. He works on social inclusion as well as equitable court access for…


Brian Atuhaire
Health Uganda
Brian has close to ten years’ experience in public health work having started his career as a front-line community health worker helping communities devastated by…


Andrés Constantin
Governance, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Argentina
Andrés Constantin is a global health lawyer and advocate from Argentina, currently working on legal and policy issues relating to health at the O’Neill Institute…


Bester Mulauzi
Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship Malawi
At Save the Children, Mulauzi manages a team of 11 senior expatriate staff in one of the most challenging contexts in the world. He is…


Folake Kio-Olayinka
Health Nigeria
Dr. Folake Kio-Olayinka is a Senior Technical Immunization Officer at the John Snow Inc. Immunization Center. She has extensive experience with polio from her time…


Juliet Otieno
Health Kenya
Juliet Awuor Otieno, the founder of Mwanadada CBO, Mwanadada communication digital communication consultancy, and an alumnus of the Emerging Leaders Foundation, is a Masters student of Development Communication and…


ElsaMarie D’Silva
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights India
ElsaMarie D’Silva is the Founder & Managing Director of Red Dot Foundation (Safecity) which is a platform that crowdsources personal experiences of sexual violence and…


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