H.E. Paul Kagame

President Kagame served as Chair of the African Union (AU) from 2018 to 2019 and chaired the East African Community from 2018 to 2021. He continues to lead AU institutional reforms and serves as the AU Champion for Domestic Health Financing. He also Chairs the Commonwealth.


Beginning in 1990, as commander of the forces of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), he led the struggle to liberate Rwanda.

The RPF halted the Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, which claimed over one million victims.

The hallmarks of President Kagame’s administration are peace and reconciliation, women’s empowerment, promotion of investment and entrepreneurship, and access to information technology, a cause he also champions as Co-Chair of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development.

Stacey Abrams

Stacey Abrams is a New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, and political leader. She served as Minority Leader in the Georgia House of Representatives and was the first black woman to become gubernatorial nominee for a major party in United States history. Stacey has launched multiple nonprofit organizations devoted to democracy protection, voting rights, and effective public policy. She has also co-founded successful companies, including a financial services firm, an energy and infrastructure consulting firm, and the media company Sage Works Productions, Inc.

Angela Akol, MD, PhD

Angela is a resourceful development program leader with 20 years’ experience directing and implementing health and development programs at national and community levels in developing countries. Her cross-cutting skills in research, program leadership, and management are expertly applied in her role as the Director of Ipas’s Africa Alliance Office, based in Nairobi, Kenya, covering sexual and reproductive health and rights programs across East Africa and leading policy advocacy across the continent. She holds a medical degree and a PhD in Global Health from the University of Bergen.

Kevin Ali

Kevin Ali is the CEO and Board Member of Organon, a global healthcare company with the vision of creating a better and healthier every day for every woman. Kevin helped lead the formation of Organon, as a spin-off from Merck & Co., to address the significant unmet health needs women face and deliver impactful solutions all over the world. Under Kevin’s leadership, Organon has made significant progress in establishing itself as the world’s leading women’s health company, with 10,000 employees and operations in more than 60 countries around the world.

Sima Bahous

Sima is a champion for women and girls, gender equality, and youth empowerment, as well as a keen advocate for quality education, poverty alleviation, and inclusive governance. Sima brings more than 35 years of leadership experience at the grassroots, national, regional, and international levels, coupled with expertise in advancing women’s empowerment and rights, addressing discrimination and violence, and promoting sustainable socio-economic development towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Shabana Basij Rasikh

SOLA is the first and only boarding school for Afghan girls, operating in Kabul from 2016 through the summer of 2021 and the Taliban’s return to power. In August 2021, Shabana led the evacuation of her entire school community from Afghanistan to Rwanda, where SOLA has reestablished its operations and its students have resumed their studies.

Jeannette Bayisenge

Jeannette has served as the Director of the Centre for Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Rwanda. She also served as the President of the National Women’s Council. She holds a Ph.D in Social Work with a Gender focus from the University of Gothenburg, a Master’s degree in Development Cooperation with specialization in Women and Development from Ewha Woman’s University in South Korea, and a bachelor degree in Social Work from the National University of Rwanda.

Aya Chebbi

Aya is a Pan-African feminist and diplomat. She rose to prominence as a voice for democracy during Tunisia’s Revolution from 2010-2011. She served as the first African Union Special Envoy on Youth and youngest diplomat at Chairperson’s Cabinet from 2018 – 2021. Nalafem is a collective of women activists and politicians united behind transformative change. She received Gates Campaign Award and was named in Forbes Africa’s 50 Most Powerful Women.

Helen Clark

Helen Clark is a respected global leader in sustainable development, gender equality, and international cooperation. She served three successive terms as Prime Minister of New Zealand between 1999 and 2008. She then became UNDP Administrator for two terms, the first woman to lead the organization. She chairs the boards of the Extractive Industries Transparency Organisation, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, and other public good organizations and initiatives, and is a board member of Women Deliver.

Stephanie Copus Campbell

Ms Copus Campbell is the Australian Ambassador for Gender Equality. She is the lead advocate for Australia’s work on gender equality and the human rights of women and girls and reflects the Australian Government’s commitment to gender equality. Ms Copus Campbell has extensive experience working across the public, private, philanthropic and community sectors in Australia and the Indo Pacific. She has served as head of Australia’s bilateral aid programs with Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Tuvalu and head of Australia’s Pacific Regional programs. Ms Copus Campbell has worked in senior executive roles with CARE Australia and the Oil Search Foundation.

Neil Datta

Neil Datta has been at the helm of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights since 2004. Neil founded the organisation with a select group of parliamentarians and with the support of IPPF in 2000, and has been responsible for its growth to its current membership of over 30 all-party parliamentary groups on population and development issues. Neil has over fifteen years’ experience in the field of political involvement in population and development. Throughout this period he has conducted in-depth research on anti-choice activity in Europe, publishing a report in 2018 that continues to receive worldwide media attention.

Catalina Devandas

A human rights lawyer from Costa Rica, Catalina was the first United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and is the former Costa Rican Ambassador to the UN in Geneva. She has focused her work on the multilateral system and successfully led efforts towards the adoption by the UN Secretary General of the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy, as well as the process within the Human Rights Council towards the recognition of the Right to a Healthy Environment. Born with Spina Bifida, Catalina is a proud disabled woman and the mother of three daughters.

Samukeliso Dube

Samukeliso leads FP2030’s global Support Network as a central platform for family planning that provides an unparalleled space for stakeholders to convene, align, share knowledge, broker resources, and advance the field. She has more than 20 years of experience in health care, including senior roles in the delivery and financing of health care. Before joining FP2030, she worked at Afrocentric Health as General Manager, leading Health Policy and Medical Advisory, and worked at Royal Philips as Medical Counsel for Africa and Business Development Manager for Southern Africa.

Julia Ehrt

Julia (she/her) is a widely respected LGBTI activist and community leader. Before joining ILGA World, she was the Executive Director of Transgender Europe, where she contributed significantly to how trans issues are perceived and debated today in Europe and beyond. She served as a founding Steering Committee member of the International Trans Fund until 2019, is a board member of the Association for Womens’ Rights in Development (AWID), and a signatory to the Yogyakarta Principles plus 10.

Mohammed M. Fall

Mr. Mohamed M. Fall is the UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa since June 2019. He is responsible for leadership, oversight and guidance to 21 UNICEF country offices, and the representation of the organization with governments, donors, the civil society and private sector. Mr. Fall has served in various other positions and field locations with UNICEF since joining the organization in November 1993. He is a national of Senegal and holds a Master’s Degree in demographics from Université de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and a Bachelor’s Degree in History, from Université de Dakar.

Senait Fisseha

Professor Senait Fisseha is a globally recognized leader in reproductive health & rights. An attorney and a physician.
She currently serves as the Vice President of Global Programs at the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, as well as Chief Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization. Previously, Prof Fisseha was Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility at the University of Michigan, Medical Director of University of Michigan’s Center for Reproductive Medicine and founding Executive Director of the Center for International Reproductive Health Training (CIRHT). She has also been recognized with several awards in Global Health.

Maryangel García-Ramos Guadiana

Maryangel has worked for the past 15 years as a human rights advocate focusing on diversity, gender, and disability. Maryangel is a passionate changemaker. She led the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Tecnológico de Monterrey, where she has been instrumental in promoting equality for historically discriminated groups. She was also recently named the President of the Council for Persons with Disabilities for the State of Nuevo León, México, and an Adviser to Gucci’s ChimexChange Campaign.

Leymah R. Gbowee

Leymah is a 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate and a Liberian Peace Activist, trained Social Worker and Women’s Rights Advocate. She also serves as the Executive Director of the Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace Initiative of the City of New York, is a Member of the Sustainable Development Goals, Aurora Prize Selection Committee and the Hilton Humanitarian Prize Jury. She serves on various boards across the world, holds a M.A. in Conflict Transformation and a Doctor of Laws honoris causa from various universities across the world.

Monica Geingos

Monica Geingos is the First Lady of the Republic of Namibia, serves as the President of OAFLAD, and is a qualified lawyer. She served on the Boards of large public- and private-sector companies as either Chairperson or Deputy Chair and played a meaningful role in private sector development. She received numerous merit awards, and is ranked by an international publication as one of “Africa’s Top 100 Economic Leaders.” Monica serves on the Boards of Africa Reach (Chairperson), the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Centre, the Concordia Leadership Council, WomenLift Health, and Virchow Foundation.

Ana Cristina González Vélez

Ana Cristina is a Colombian Medical Doctor with a PhD in bioethics and public health. She was a Harvard LEAD Fellow on Women in Global Health. She is a researcher, teacher, and expert on the right to health and gender equality, strategically positioning a critique on the use of criminal law to regulate abortion and in building coalitions like Causa Justa movement that helped usher Colombia to one of the most liberal abortion laws globally. In addition to her consulting roles with ECLAC and PAHO, Ana Cristina is the Cofounder of La Mesa por la Vida and was included as one of 100 most influential people in TIME. Her most recent publication is in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice.

The Hon. Natalie Hutchins, MP

Natalie oversees the implementation of Victoria’s Gender Equality Strategy and ensures women have an equal voice in everything the government does. The Minister has always been a fierce advocate for gender equality, for workers’ rights and for justice for Aboriginal Victorians. She was elected to the Victorian Parliament in 2010. She has previously served as the Minister for Local Government, Aboriginal Affairs, Industrial Relations, Prevention of Family Violence, Corrections, Youth Justice, Crime Prevention, and Victims Support.

Memory Kachambwa

Memory Zonde-Kachambwa is the Executive Director at the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (known as FEMNET). Memory is a pan African feminist, gender, and women’s rights activist, with over 20 years’ experience developing, managing, and implementing programs promoting women and girls’ rights regionally and globally. A seasoned cross-cultural thought leader and strategist bridging national, regional, global women’s rights networks with policy leaders. She is one of the co-leaders of the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Economic Justice and Rights.

H.E. Jeannette Kagame

Jeannette is the Chairperson of Imbuto Foundation, an organization that contributes to generational improvements in health, education, youth, and economic empowerment in Rwanda. She is also the Chairperson of Unity Club, an organization founded in 1996 after the Genocide against the Tutsi. It comprises current and former members of Government and their spouses to promote social cohesion and sustainable development in Rwanda. She is a founding member of the Organization of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS and for Development (OAFLAD), and served as its President from 2004 -2006.

Cleopatra Kambugu

Cleopatra is a Ugandan transgender activist known for her historic achievement as the first Ugandan transgender woman to receive a gender-affirming national ID in 2021. She is currently the Director of Programs at UHAI EASHRI, an activist fund supporting LGBT and sex worker movements in seven East African countries. She also contributes to international forums and sits on multiple boards, including the International Trans Fund. Cleopatra has an academic credentials in Molecular Biology and Genetics. Her life and advocacy are highlighted in the Netflix documentary, The Pearl of Africa.

Natalia Kanem

Natalia has dedicated her life to improving the health and lives of women and children by championing their rights and choices, leveraging 30 years of experience in science, public health, and philanthropy to advance reproductive health and rights and uphold human dignity. As United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, Natalia oversees its life-saving policy, development, and humanitarian work in over 120 countries to assure that “every pregnancy is intended, every childbirth is safe, and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.”

Licypriya Kangujam

Licypriya is an 11-year-old Indian Climate Activist. She has been championing her cause since age six to protect, preserve, and nurture our environment by fighting climate change. She addressed world leaders at the United Nations Climate Conference in 2019 in Madrid, Spain calling on world leaders to take immediate climate action to save our planet and future. She is an outspoken young leader inspiring millions of people around the world and one of the leading voices for climate change globally. She is also a Guinness World Record Holder for cleaning our planet and the Special Envoy for the President of Timor Leste.

Jac Sm Kee

Jac is a feminist activist working at the intersection of internet technologies, social justice, and collective power. Jac is located within these movements at hyper-local, networked, and global levels. Amongst stuff Jac is proud of being part of is co-founding the Take Back the Tech! collaborative global campaign on ending online gender-based violence, stewarding the collaborative development of the Feminist Principles of the Internet, and driving gender justice as a main thematic issue at the Internet Governance Forum. Jac is currently making into reality with co-dreamers Numun Fund – the first fund on feminist tech in the global South.

Dr. Maliha Khan

Dr. Maliha Khan brings three decades of leadership and expertise in gender equality. Dr. Khan’s commitment to feminist movements and the empowerment of girls and women began in her native country of Pakistan, where she started her career implementing development projects in marginalized regions of the country. Her first few years of experience focused on incorporating the first cohort of girls and women into exclusively male development projects, which taught her a lot about what not to do. Her commitment to gender equality continued in her roles leading gender-focused program design, implementation, and evaluation at organizations like the Care and Oxfam. She has also worked with the Rockefeller Foundation, and Asian Development Bank, and was the head of programs at Malala Fund before joining Women Deliver. Based on her personal and professional experience in Pakistan and countries around the world, she firmly believes that organizations working to advance gender equality worldwide must be representative of the world’s most vulnerable girls and women to truly achieve change. Her experience in international development programming has also made her a fierce advocate for challenging and dismantling the sector’s colonial and racist legacies that continue to inform its operations, programming, language, and funding. She believes real change is possible with a concerted, intentional effort to challenge structures and systems — a belief that underpins her leadership at Women Deliver.

Prior to her international development work, Dr. Khan spent many years in academia teaching gender studies, including as an Associate Professor of Sustainable Development at World Learning’s SIT Graduate Institute and at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan. She has a PhD from the State University of New York and an MA from Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad in Social Anthropology.

Tanzila Khan

Tanzila Khan is an entrepreneur, activist and a public speaker and delivers sessions on various topics such as unleashing creativity, overcoming barriers, and inclusion within businesses. She has delivered her expertise across 19 countries through various workshops and training sessions and collaborations. She is also the founder of Girlythings.pk that delivers urgent menstrual kits to menstruators in Pakistan. Tanzila Khan recently won the Amal Clooney Women’s Empowerment Award by the Prince of Wales in London in May 2022 for her services.

Latanya Mapp Frett

Latanya Mapp Frett is President and CEO of Global Fund for Women and serves on the Board of Directors for Global Fund for Women and Global Fund for Women UK. As a feminist fund, Global Fund for Women offers flexible support to a diverse group of partners – more than 5,000 groups across 175 countries so far – to create meaningful change that will last beyond our lifetimes. Latanya is the author of: The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Social Impact-Driving Movements We Need Now More than Ever. She previously worked with Planned Parenthood Global, UNICEF and USAID.

Haley McEwen

Haley has been conducting research on anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ movements for over a decade. Although her work focuses on campaigns against sexuality education, reproductive justice, and LGBTIQ+ rights in African countries, her investigations reveal the transnational connections that sustain these movements. In addition to her academic research, Haley has worked with several United Nations agencies and international advocacy groups to pre-empt and respond to attacks against human rights. She is currently a researcher at Gothenburg University and a research associate of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

H.E. Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Having dedicated her life to bringing an end to Apartheid, Phumzile became the first woman to hold the position of Deputy President of South Africa. She continues to be engaged with organizations committed to education, women’s empowerment, and gender equality, such as the Global Partnership and Fund to End Violence Against Children (Board Member), African Leadership Academy (Member of the Advisory Board), the Mandela Rhodes Foundation (Board of Trustees), and Women Deliver (Board Chair). She is the Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Founder of the Umlambo Foundation.

Precious Moloi-Motsepe

Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe is Co-Founder and CEO of the Motsepe Foundation, where she guides continental and international philanthropic initiatives aimed at women, youth, and other marginalised groups.

Through her Centre for Gender Equality, Wellness and Leadership she has published The Precious Little Black Book and launched the Girls in STEM programme to build a critical mass of women in research and innovation.

As a businesswoman, she is the Founder and Executive Chairman of African Fashion International, an enterprise established to promote African creative industries in the interest of women and youth.

She is also Chancellor of the University of Cape Town.

Françoise Moudouthe

A pan-African feminist with roots in Cameroon, Françoise is passionate about advocating for women’s rights and fostering sisterhood within African feminist movements. In January 2021, she became the CEO of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), a pan-African women’s fund that provides financial and other resources to African women’s organizations working towards the fulfillment of all African women’s rights. Prior to joining AWDF, Françoise founded and ran Eyala, a bilingual (English-French) platform that amplifies the voices and lived experiences of African feminists. Françoise is based in Accra, Ghana.

Chido Cleopatra Mpemba

Chido was appointed in November 2021 as the Youngest Diplomat in the African Union Chairperson’s Cabinet, adopted by the Heads of State Assembly, as the Special Envoy of Youth in Africa. She is responsible for advocating for 75% of the population in Africa and leading Africa’s youth constituency, fronting the voices of over 870 million in Africa.

Thelma (Theo) Mubanga

Thelma Malambo Mubanga (Theo) is a genderqueer Zambian, queer, feminist whose activism is deeply rooted in lived experiences. Theo is involved in the feminist movement but mainly known as a strong advocate for LGBTIQ rights and tackles different challenges including abortion & SW rights, SRHR & Bodily Autonomy. Theo is passionate about the mental health of young, queer people and would like to champion access to queer affirming mental health services. Professionally, Theo is the Movement Building Officer for the Women’s Alliance for Equality (WAFE) and the co-founder for Queer Voices.

Mamta Murthi

At the World Bank, Mamta oversees the Global Practices for Education; Health, Nutrition, and Population; Gender; Social Protection and Jobs – as well as the Human Capital Project. She has held many leadership positions at the World Bank, including as Director of Operations Policy, Director of Strategy and Operations in Infrastructure, Director of Strategy and Operations in the Africa Region, and Regional Country Director for the European Union. An economist by training, Mamta joined the World Bank as a Young Professional in 1995. She has a Bachelors’ Degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi and a D.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford. Mamta has written extensively on poverty, demography, education, pensions, and skills and is well-known for her econometric studies on fertility in India.

Noelene Nabulivou

Noelene is a long-time feminist community organiser, analyst, educator and activist working for socio-economic, ecological and climate justice and universal human rights in urban informal settlements, rural and maritime Fiji, the Pacific and globally for over 35 years. Guided by autonomous feminist movements, Noelene works with communities, civil society, Governments, development sector and the UN to advance bold heterodox strategies on urgent, complex questions of human rights and development justice. In 2020 Noelene was the recipient of the International Women’s Health Coalition’s Joan B. Dunlop award for advocacy.

Nancy Northup

Nancy Northup is President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a global human rights organization whose game changing litigation and advocacy work have transformed how reproductive rights are understood by courts, governments, and human rights bodies. Under her leadership, the Center has played a key role in securing legal victories in the U.S., Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe and at the U.N. on issues including access to life-saving obstetrics care, maternal health, contraception, and safe abortion services, as well as the prevention of forced sterilization and child marriage.

Delphine O

Delphine O is ambassador and Secretary General for the Generation Equality Forum at the French ministry of Foreign Affairs. She led the organization of the largest women’s rights conference since 1995, co-chaired by France and Mexico and organized by UN Women, which resulted in 40bn$ commitments to accelerate gender equality. Previously she was an elected Member of Parliament and worked in different think tanks and NGOs in Korea, the US, Iran and Afghanistan.

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame

Gertrude is a Ghanaian advocate for disability rights and current chairperson of the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She works as the Global Advocacy Manager at Sightsavers and has extensive experience in leadership and capacity building for social development. She is an international advocate for gender and disability issues, serving as president of the International Council on Education of People with Visual Impairment in Africa and a member of the World Blind Union’s Executive. She has received multiple awards, including Ghana’s Excellence Award-Grand Medal Award.

Emilia Reyes

Emilia is also the co-convenor of the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development and co-lead of the Economic Justice and Rights Action Coalition. She serves as the coordinator of the Campaign of Campaigns, promoting cross-movement mobilization around macro-economic and environmental issues. Emilia is a contributing author of the segment, “Gender, Climate Justice and Transformative Pathways,” in the IPCC report “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Member of the Steering Committee of the Civil Society 7.”

Tarcila Rivera Zea

Tarcila brings over 40 years of experience advocating for the rights of Indigenous women and youth. She champions ancestral cultures, trains Indigenous leaders, and combats all forms of violence. Her work has been recognized by UNICEF, the Ford Foundation, and the Sacred Fire Foundation, and she has been awarded by Peru’s Ministries of Culture, Women, and Vulnerable Populations, and National Election Jury. She co-founded CHIRAPAQ and indigenous networks like ECMIA, FIMI-IIWF, and FIAY and served on the United Nation’s (UN) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, UN Women’s Advisory Group and UNESCO’s International Commission on the Futures of Education.

H.E. Mary Robinson

Mary Robinson is a founding member of The Elders and has served as Chair since 2018. She was the first woman President of Ireland (1990–1997) and is a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997–2002). Between 2013 and 2016, she served as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy in three roles; first for the Great Lakes region of Africa, then on Climate Change until the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change in 2015 and then as Special Envoy on El Niño and Climate.

Kira Rudik

In addition to her roles as a Member of Parliament and Party Leader, Kira was the first Deputy Chairwoman of the Parliament Committee on Digital Transformation and Vice-President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). Before politics, Kira was an IT entrepreneur who headed Ring Ukraine company and ensured its acquisition by Amazon for $1 billion. She was also Included in the TOP-100 most influential women in Ukraine according to the Focus and Novoe Vremya magazines. In November 2022, she received the Women in Politics Champion of the Year Award from The Alliance of Her.

H.E. Macky Sall

President Macky Sall was born on December 11, 1961 in Fatick, Senegal — the town of which he served as Mayor from 2009 to 2012. President Sall was Prime Minister for three years from 2004 to 2007, and also acted as President of the Senegalese National Assembly from 2007 to 2008. Elected fourth President of the Republic of Senegal in March 2012, he took office on April 2, 2012.

Mwanahamisi Singano

“Mishy” is an African feminist passionate about fighting structural and intersecting inequalities while contributing to a more just, equal, fairer, and sustainable world. Over the last 15 years, she has worked with women’s rights organizations, civil society groups, and governments in developing strategies, building partnerships, managing programs, and engaging communities toward promoting and protecting women’s rights and the planet’s health.

Mona Sinha

S. Mona Sinha is the Global Executive Director of Equality Now, an organization that campaigns for legal and systemic change around the world to address violence and discrimination against women and girls.

For 25 years, Mona has leveraged her corporate experience to launch, lead or advise over 90 mission-aligned organizations to create a gender-equal world. She is the Board Chair of Women Moving Millions and serves on the Executive Council of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, as well as the Advisory Board of Gucci CHIME.

Vivania Tatawaqa

Viva is a longtime grassroots feminist mobiliser and organizer in Fiji and the Pacific. From her organizing beginnings at DIVA for Equality in Fiji, she is now a member of RESURJ, a global alliance of feminists under age 40, working for sexual and reproductive justice. Viva works on many initiatives at the local, national, regional, and global levels on issues ranging from universal human rights to social, economic, ecological, and climate justice.

Ineza Umuhoza Grace

Ineza is a Rwandan climate negotiator, researcher, and ecofeminist who champions the empowerment of women, girls, and frontline communities as a means to achieving global climate justice. She is the Co-Founder and Global Coordinator of the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition, a global coalition of 600+ youth from 60+ countries urging governments and the private sector to take concrete action to address climate related loss and damage. She is also the Founder of The Green Protector, a Rwandan NGO aiming to increase youth participation in environmental protection.

H.R.H. Mabel van Oranje

Mabel is a serial entrepreneur for social change working globally to advance equality, freedom, and justice. During the last decade, she played a catalytic role in the creation and growth of Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, the Girls First Fund, and VOW for Girls. Mabel is a board member of Fondation Chanel, the Lego Foundation, More in Common, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, and VOW for Girls (chair). She is also an advisor to Apolitical Academy Global, Co-Impact’s Gender Fund, Global Witness, and the Graca Machel Trust.

Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist, UN Messenger of Peace, and the youngest person ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. As co-founder of Malala Fund, she is building a world where every girl can learn and lead without fear.

Anita Zaidi

Anita Zaidi is the President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Gender Equality division. Anita oversees the foundation’s efforts to achieve gender equality by integrating gender across the foundation’s global work and investing in women’s economic empowerment and women’s leadership..
Previously, Anita served as the chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at the Aga Khan University (AKU) in Karachi, Pakistan.
Anita earned a medical degree at AKU and completed further training at Duke University, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health. Anita has published more than 200 research papers.

Porochista Khakpour

Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran and raised in Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley. She is the author of four critically acclaimed books. Her next book, Tehrangeles: A Novel, is forthcoming from Pantheon in 2024. Among her many fellowships is a National Endowment for the Arts award. Her other writing has appeared in many sections of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Bookforum, Elle, Slate, BOMB, and many others. She is a contributing editor at Evergreen Review and lives in NYC.

Nhial Deng

Nhial Deng is a South Sudanese refugee, writer, youth advocate, community activist, and organizer. He spent 11 years in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya and now attends Huron University in Canada.

As a youth leader and community activist in Kakuma, Nhial initiated several projects in the camp to help young people build better futures, such as the Refugee Youth Peace Ambassadors and SheLeads Kakuma. He is passionate about the role of education, mentorship, and social entrepreneurship as powerful tools for young refugees to build better futures and communities. His work primarily revolves around quality education, gender and climate justice, policy advocacy, and peacebuilding.

Farida Ally

Farida Ally, a 24-year-old Kenyan education activist, is the founder of ELIMU CARE, a community organization focused on educational development and gender equity. Farida is a member of the She Leads UN Youth Advocates program, addressing girls and young women’s participation in decision making. She has delivered speeches at the UN Human Rights Council and the European Humanitarian Forum. Inspired by her own educational journey, Farida advocates for quality education for all, regardless of socioeconomic status. She has received nominations and awards for her work, including the African GBV Warrior Award.

Degan Ali

Degan Ali is an internationally-renowned humanitarian leader who has been at the forefront of shifting power for decades. She is the Executive Director of the African Development organization Adeso, as well as co-founder of the first Global South civil society network for local and national humanitarian organizations, the Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR). Her key achievements include leading Adeso in pioneering cash transfers; establishing the 25% localization target as part of the Grand Bargain Commitment.

She is based in Kenya and works with organizations and philanthropists across the globe, bringing together and identifying efforts to decolonize aid and philanthropy.

Prudence Ngwenya

Ms. Prudence Ngwenya’s main responsibilities include leading and providing strategic guidance on the AUC’s mandate on Gender and Youth Development while providing strategic oversight on the implementations of programs within her Directorate. She leads the African Union’s agenda to unleash the potential of women and youth by striving for gender and youth parity across African countries, enabling development through strategic partnerships while fostering meaningful engagement with all of the stakeholders in the women, gender and youth development landscape.

Karen Ondwasi

Ms. Karen Ondwasi is a young leader who very passionate about advocating for gender equality and the rights of girls and Young Women. She is the First Chair of the Gender is My Agenda (GIMAC) Young Women Network in Africa which was created to recognize and amplify young women’s voices and advocacy efforts across the Continent. She is also the coordinator of the She Leads project whose goals is to increase sustained influence of girls and young women on decision-making and the transformation of gender norms in formal and informal institutions. Gender Equality is her Agenda!

H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a member of The Elders, a former President of Liberia and Africa’s first elected female head of state, a Nobel Peace Laureate, a leading promoter of peace, justice and democratic rule, a voice for freedom, and advocate for health for all. She is the founder of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development (EJS Center), which focuses on the advancement of women in public life across Africa. In July 2020, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was appointed to co-chair the WHO’s Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR).

Natsnet Ghebrebrhan

Natsnet Ghebrebrhan is the Violence Against Women (VAW) Prevention Director at Raising Voices. She supports the teams in their VAW prevention efforts and has been involved in this field since 2001. She has a background in addressing VAW in a humanitarian context. Before joining Raising Voices, she worked in emergency and post-emergency settings in Eastern and Western Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Christine Stegling

Christine Stegling is the Deputy Executive Director of the Policy, Advocacy and Knowledge at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and an Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations since January 2023. Prior to joining UNAIDS, she was the Executive Director of Frontline AIDS; and previously, Executive Director of both the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition and the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA). Her policy and advocacy work at global, regional and country levels has helped increase access to HIV prevention and treatment; expanded sexual and reproductive health and rights, and supported marginalized people through community-based programs.

Fatoumata Haidara

Dr. Haidara is a visionary and champion of women and girl’s rights with a passion for social justice. She has 20 years’ experience holding leadership roles with WaterAid, Oxfam, the CIDA, and now with Plan International. As Plan’s West and Central Africa Sahel Director, she provided strategic leadership for Sahel portfolio including child rights, gender equality, and community-based development initiatives. She is a results-oriented leader with demonstrated competence in creating and delivering innovative program strategies. Dr Haidara has a doctorate in biological sciences and holds certificates in human rights, Public Relations, organizational development, and gender-based planning.

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Nardos Bekele-Thomas is the Chief Executive Officer of the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD). Her immediate former role is as the Resident Coordinator of the UN and Resident Representative of the UNDP in South Africa. In 2016, she served as the Senior Director of the Office of the former UN Secretary-General, H.E. Ban Ki-Moon. She also worked as the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Kenya and in Benin. As a Private Sector Policy advisor, she has carried out policy studies and developed programmes on the promotion of entrepreneurship and business skills training for employment and job creation for women and youth.

Jennie Joseph

Jennie Joseph, LM, CPM, fights for perinatal health and equity for all childbearing people. A British-trained midwife, Jennie is one of the world’s most respected midwives and authority on improving birth outcomes and life- saving maternity health models. The 2022 TIME Magazine Woman of the Year, Jennie is the Founder and President of Commonsense Childbirth Inc and the creator of The JJ Way® Model.

Dr. Joannie Marlene Bewa

Dr. Joannie Bewa is a multi-award-winning medical doctor, public health researcher at the University of South Florida, with 15+ years of experience in sexual, reproductive, maternal, and global health. She founded the Global Health & International Development Program (GHID), is an Expert Advisor for WHO Afro, a Grand Challenges Canada Awardee, and was distinguished as an influential woman advancing contraception by Melinda French Gates. Her exposure to development and media led her to a career as a chief bilingual conversation strategist (English / French) who moderates high-level multilateral and government panels in collaboration with firms such as Moderate the Panel.

Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan

The Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan was first elected as Member of Parliament for Vancouver South in 2015. He served as Minister of National Defence from 2015 to 2021.

Reyusha Chalise

Reyusha Chalise currently works as SRHR Project Officer at Beyond Beijing Committee Nepal, a feminist human rights national network organization dedicated to empowering women, girls, young people and individuals with diverse Sexual Orientations and Gender Identities. She is a public health graduate and a young feminist activist, who has actively engaged with women, girls and young people in all their diversity for past five years to ensure that their SRHR needs are addressed and has continuously advocated for their rights and creating awareness in communities to achieve gender equality and SRHR for all.

Julisa Tambunan

Julisa Tambunan is the Deputy Executive Director of EqualMeasures2030. Born and raised during the military regime in Indonesia, Julisa started her activism early in life. For two decades, she has worked alongside marginalized populations in low-resource settings globally fostering equal opportunities and holding power to account, whether as a journalist, an emergency responder, or an INGO Country Director. She champions intersectionality and anti-oppression values in the spaces she occupies, including at Mercy Corps, UNICEF, and Malala Fund. Julisa is also the co-founder of GirlSPARKS and an Obama Leader. She holds master degrees in Child & Adolescent Psychology and Business Administration.

Louise Holt

Louise Holt joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2002. She has served as Deputy Director, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights; Director, Social Development Policy; and Director, Sector and Thematic Specialist Division at the Canadian International Development Agency. She was posted to Nairobi and Pretoria as Counsellor and Director of Development. From 2016 to 2018, Ms. Holt served as Director General, Canadian Partnerships for Health and Social Development and as Director General, Partnership for Gender Equality from 2018-2020. She is currently Director General, Social Development, Global Issues and Development Branch.

Pauline Faith Gartor

Pauline was born and raised in Liberia. She received her Bachelor of Science in Bio-Medical Sciences from the University of Liberia in 2022. Pauline is the founder and Executive Director of the Girls Health Alliance. She is a member of the Youth Coalition for Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, UN Women Youth Activist, and President Emeritus of the National Children and Youth Advisory Board of Liberia. She has spent the past ten years advocating for girls’ rights through action-based policy and programs and the empowerment of community-based organizations to tackle Gender-Based Violence, teen health, early marriage, and Sexual Reproductive Health Rights in rural communities.

Wangechi Wachira

A Visionary and passionate woman’s rights advocate and versatile Executive Director with over 16 years of experience, recognized for a proven track record in managing, implementing innovative projects, mobilizing resources, driving significant policy developments to promote gender equality, non-discrimination, access to justice for women and girls. With expertise in intellectual leadership, which has been instrumental in advancing sustainable development in Kenya. A recipient of the Women on Boards Network Individual Empowering Grassroots Women Award 2022.Demonstrating dedication, fortitude, strong vision, diligence, this passionate women’s rights advocate continues to make a positive impact on the lives of women & girls in Kenya.

Shereen Bhan

Shereen Bhan’s career spans 20+ years of experience in developing capacity building programs. At WomenLift Health, she oversees the design and implementation of Leadership training modalities for mid-career women in global public health. As part of the senior leadership team, she actively contributes to strategic planning and management for an at-scale initiative to reach women leaders in health around the world. Previously, she was the Assistant Director of the International Center for Public Policy at the Andrew Young School Policy Studies where she led a leadership training program for cohorts of the Young African Leaders Initiative, an Obama administration effort, from 2015-2017.

Asenath Mwithigah

Asenath is the Chief Executive Officer of Orchid Project, a British charity working globally to end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Asenath provides the overall leadership and strategic substantive thinking and direction of the organization globally. She strengthens Orchid Project’s programmes, partnerships, advocacy, research, and movement building in the Global South whilst continuing to build on Orchid’s global commitment to the rights of women and girls and a world free from female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C).

As a seasoned global leader in the international development field, she believes that gender equality is attainable.

Nabeela Iqbal

Nabeela Iqbal is a peacebuilder from Sri Lanka who works in women’s and minority rights. She is the Founder and Co-Director for “Sisterhood Initiative” which creates safe spaces for young women from minority communities – particularly Muslim women, to engage in discussions. In 2020, she was recognized for her work by Amnesty International and the UN Office of the Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth as a young human rights defender in the face of the pandemic. She is a global advisor to FRIDA – The Young Feminist Fund, and in 2023 was named a Changemaker by the Kofi Annan Foundation.

Zainab Sunmisola Yunusa

Zainab works in community and international development, focusing on research, advocacy, and implementation of gender-transformative programmes and policies in areas of youth empowerment, sexual and reproductive health and rights, inclusive and participatory governance, and climate justice. She is a member of the SRHR & Climate Justice Coalition, the UNFPA Joint Youth Working Group on SRHR and Climate Change, and a Global Ambassador for the UNICEF U-Report citizen engagement platform. She is a Chevening Scholar pursuing an MA in Gender and Development at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.

Tawakkol Karman

Tawakkol Karman was known as “The Mother of the Revolution” and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 in recognition of her work in nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peacebuilding work in Yemen. Upon being awarded the prize, Tawakkol became the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, as well as the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate at the time, at the age of 32.

Karman is a mother of four as well as a human rights activist, journalist, and politician.

Tawakkol was born in 1979 in Taiz, Yemen’s third largest city. She studied an undergraduate degree in Commerce from the University of Science and Technology in Sana’a before completing a graduate degree in Political Science from the University of Sana’a.

Growing up in a politically tumultuous country, Tawakkol witnessed the unification of North and South Yemen in 1990, followed by a civil war between the two factions in 1994 in which the North triumphed over the South. The civil war led to dissidence in the South as the repressive Northern government assumed control over the country.

“YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG; YOU HAVE TO TRUST YOURSELF THAT YOU CAN BUILD A NEW COUNTRY. YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAM.”

A journalist by profession and human rights activist by nature, Tawakkol responded to the political instability and human rights abuses in Yemen by mobilizing others and reporting on injustices. In 2005, she founded the organization Women Journalists Without Chains, (WJWC) which advocates for rights and freedoms and provides media skills to journalists. In addition, the organization produces regular reports on human rights abuses in Yemen, documenting more than 50 cases of attacks and unfair sentences against newspapers and writers to date.

In 2007, Tawakkol began organizing weekly protests in Yemen’s capitol, Sana’a, targeting systemic government repression and calling for inquiries into corruption and other forms of social and legal injustice. Tawakkol’s weekly protests continued until 2011, when she redirected protesters to support the Arab Spring. Tawakkol even brought Yemen’s revolution to New York speaking directly with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and organizing rallies at the UN headquarters.

Bold and outspoken, Tawakkol has been imprisoned on a number of occasions for her pro-democracy, pro-human rights protests. Amongst Yemen’s opposition movement, she is known as “mother of the revolution” and “the iron woman.”

Since receiving the award, Tawakkol has continued to support female journalists and rally Yemenis against government corruption and injustice. Fiercely committed to change, Tawakkol spends the majority of her time in a tent in Change Square, where she continues her peaceful protests for justice and freedom.

Vanessa Nakate

Vanessa Nakate is a climate activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Vanessa began advocating for climate justice in 2019 with a protest on the streets of Kampala, Uganda, becoming a well-known face in a global movement. Vanessa has since used her platform to advocate for climate justice for every community, especially those most affected by the impacts of climate change. She founded Rise Up Movement to elevate the voices of African climate activists, as well as a project to install solar panels in rural Ugandan schools. Vanessa is also the author of A Bigger Picture, a manifesto on inclusive climate action.

Hafsat Abiola

Hafsat Abiola is the President of Women in Africa Initiative, the foremost platform organizing the continent’s leading women into a force for sustainable development. An economist with degrees from Harvard and Tsinghua, a pro-democracy activist who lost both parents to her country’s democracy struggle, and a former member of her state’s cabinet in charge of the MDGs and trade and investment portfolios, Hafsat believes women’s equal engagement in the economy and governance systems at all levels will lead to a better world.

Divina Stella Maloum

Divina is a multi-award-winning peacebuilding practitioner, cartoonist, Humanitarian, nuclear non-proliferation activist, International speaker, UNCCD youth caucus facilitator for Africa, Trader, AI and big data student. Divina is also an outstanding peacebuilding practitioner who founded in 2015 and has been leading Children for peace. She is an advocate of intergenerational dialogue and diversity. And is fruitfully engaged for the full internalization of UNSCR 2250 and 1325, the UN convention on the Child and Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against women’s rights.

Lopa Banerjee

Lopa Banerjee is the Director of the Civil Society Division at UN-Women.

She helms UN-Women’s strategic engagement with civil society and gender equality activists and advocates, to promote partnerships for gender equality. Her work focuses on strengthening intergenerational allyship with diverse stakeholders to expand civic space and influence global action for gender equality.

Alicia Herbert

Alicia Herbert OBE is the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO’s) Director, Education, Gender and Equalities and the UK’s Special Envoy for Gender Equality. Prior to her current position, Alicia worked in academia, the World Bank and represented the UK government in senior roles in Mozambique, Sudan and Nigeria. Over the past 25 years, she has played a leading role in shaping international development policy and driving programme delivery and policy reform in countries across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Sumaiya Islam

Sumaiya Islam is an intersectional feminist with over two decades of transnational experience in advancing multi-stakeholder policy initiatives, justice sector reform processes and mobilizing resources to strengthen social movements and community based justice organisations focused on advancing racial and gender justice. She embraces colonial and post colonial dimensions of world politics, in both theory and practice, to advance cross cultural ideas of equity, liberty, justice and democracy.

Monica Aleman Cunningham

Monica Aleman serves as the International Program Director for the Gender, Racial and Ethnic Justice work at the Ford Foundation. She plays a key role in the foundation’s efforts to reduce gender-based violence, end structural inequalities, and institutionally strengthen feminist movements to advance a global agenda for gender equality. Prior to her Ford tenure, she was Executive Director and founder of the International Indigenous Women’s Forum (FIMI) and the Indigenous Women’s Fund and director at MADRE. Monica is co-chair of the board of directors for Witness and co-chair of the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples.

Bassey Nyambi

For nearly a decade, Bassey has worked tirelessly to advance reproductive health and rights for women and young people – no matter where they are – and strengthen strategic alliances across social justice movements. She has been committed to breaking through neocolonialist and structural barriers to develop a justice forward approach to PP Global’s work in Africa, Latin America and the United States. A first-generation Nigerian-American, Bassey holds a Master’s degree in Global Health and Social Justice from King’s College London, a Master’s degree in International and European Politics from the University of Edinburgh, and a bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from Lafayette College.

H.E. Graça Machel

Graça Machel is a women’s and children’s rights advocate, former freedom fighter, first Education Minister of Mozambique and co-founder and current Deputy Chair of The Elders. An outspoken champion for the African continent and its success, in 2010 Graça Machel founded the Graça Machel Trust, which advocates for the rights of women and children, as well as good governance and democracy. She also founded the Foundation for Community Development (FDC), a Mozambican organization supporting civil society to strengthen their communities, facilitate social and economic justice, and assist in the reconstruction and development of post-war Mozambique.

Liz Fraser

Liz joined Kate Spade New York in March 2020 and brings over 25 years of industry experience to the global lifestyle brand and business. She has worked to dimensionalize the brand’s purpose by putting mental health at the heart of its social mission. Liz also serves as an executive sponsor of Tapestry’s Working Parents and Caregivers Employee Resource Group. Prior roles include CEO of Anne Klein, President of Lafayette 148, and President of Marc by Marc Jacobs. Liz holds a Bachelor of Art degree in Art History from Barnard College.

Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe

Sister Dr. Rosemary Nyirumbe, SHS, is a member of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Gulu. She holds a Ph.D. in education, an M.S. in leadership, and a B.A. in development studies and ethics. Sr. Nyirumbe currently serves as the director of St. Monica’s Girls’ Tailoring Center where she works with women and girls that have survived horrific acts of violence due to the civil war. The center focuses on the restoration of dignity and capacity building through advocacy, formal education, vocational training, and psychological services. Sr. Nyirumbe is also a global humanitarian worker.

Lígia Batista

Lígia Batista is the executive director of Instituto Marielle Franco. She has a degree in Law and is a Master’s student in Public Policy and Human Rights, producing reflections on the situation of democracy and the challenges for the political representation of Black women in Brazil. Over the last 10 years, Batista has been working in international organizations devoted to the defense of human rights and the promotion of racial and gender justice in Brazil and Latin America. She is also a fellow of the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024).

Jhannel Tomlinson

Jhannel Tomlinson is a scholar-activist committed to climate change adaptation, youth empowerment, gender equality, and community engagement. As the Co-Founder of GirlsCARE Jamaica and Young People for Action on ClimateChange, she empowers young people to actively participate in climate action. She is a 50-Next Trailblazing Activist, who received the Prime Minister’s Youth Award in 2019 for her achievements in youth empowerment and climate advocacy and currently serves as the Caribbean Advisor for the Next Generation Climate Board and is a member of the Global Fund for Women’s Feminist MLA Committee.

Bettina Baldeschi

Bettina Baldeschi is CEO of the International Women’s Development Agency. Since 2017 she has led a reconceptualisation of IWDA’s strategic role and contribution, articulating a ‘third way’ that draws on the organisation’s roots in both the women’s rights movement and the international development sector. Under her leadership, the organisation has taken significant steps towards decolonising its operations and implementing feminist leadership principles. Bettina has also overseen transformative expansion of IWDA’s knowledge translation and systemic change work, including co-leadership of the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Feminist Movements and Leadership.

Faith S. Kaoma

Faith is a youth activist with over 8 years’ experience in youth-led development programming and organizing. In 2015, at the age of 19, she co-found Copper Rose, Zambia’s largest youth-led organization, with 40 full time staff and over 1000 volunteers countrywide. With a focus on building a conducive environment in which all young people can thrive, Copper Rose’s thematic areas of work include health and wellbeing, gender equality, youth development and leadership. Through her work with the We Trust You(th) Initiative, Faith has gained regional and global youth-led development and advocacy experience.

Zozibini Tunzi

South African-born philanthropist, actress, and model Zozibini Tunzi is the founder of the Zozibini Tunzi Foundation, which promotes gender equality and equitable education for African women and girls. Zozi is a Public relations graduate and has collaborated with various institutions that champion the rights of women, such as UN Women, the AU Youth Envoy, and the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. Her brand has influenced the fashion, cosmetics, arts, and entertainment industries while premiering in award-winning global productions such as The Women’s King, and she has had a successful pageant career as the longest-reigning Miss Universe 2019.

Tulika Srivastava

Tulika’s work includes rural women at the very grassroots- from undertaking litigation for individuals and groups of individuals; to negotiating international procedural treaties, supporting implementation of substantive treaties; and most recently, understanding- and challenging the linkages between resources and power, particularly in the context of shrinking civil spaces and organising for women and trans* human rights are concerned. Her work spans local to global realities, and her capacities include working in a range of contexts. Her positioning is global and bringing together diverse perspectives, global movements for rights are based in regional voices and national realities.

Angell Muttoni

Angell Mutoni is a passionate poet-rapper and singer-songwriter currently based in Kigali, Rwanda. An eclectic mix of poetic Afro hip-hop, soul and RnB, Angell has 3 mixtapes and 2 EPs avaiilable online. In 2016 she was one of the top 10 nominees of the RFI Prix Decouverte and has performed in several shows and festivals across East Africa. As she continues her musical journey, she hopes to keep doing so through creative collaboration and musical experimentation.

Ben Antelis

Ben is a Songwriter, Producer, Executive producer, and Manager. Currently Co-managing MILCK, Ben has worked with world class artists such as Ricky Martin, Lauv, Tori Kelly, Matisyahu, Dixie, Spencer Ludwig, Evangelia, and many more.

Noemi Grütter

Noemi Grütter is a feminist activist, human rights expert, and DJ who inspires with her feminist work from the streets, to local, national, and international institutions, to the clubs and festivals. She is currently the Co-Coordinator for the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action, working with over 450 community-based organizations in the intersection of gender justice and climate justice. Moreover, she is the Co-President of Sexual Health Switzerland (member of IPPF) and a Women Deliver Young Leader. She co-founded Elle Kwa Mziki, a female DJ community in Rwanda, striving for more equality within the music business.

Winnie Ange

Winnie is a creative dancer, writer, performer, and artistic director of theater projects related to the empowerment of women and gender equality. Winnie is a talented, passionate, and hardworking artist who has a long track of creating original pieces of art work through a variety of mediums. Winnie comes to you from a strong artistic background and a long history of excellent performance with the ability to create theater and dance pieces. She can work with a wide variety of disciplines such as acting, dancing, and a theater positive “can do” attitude.

Zuhura Seng’enge

Zuhura Seng’enge, “The African Lioness,” (Create2030) is an award-winning artist from Tanzania with a 10+ years career as a poet, spoken-word performer, and independent recording artist. Zuhura’s unique style addresses themes of identity, equality, and empowerment, giving her an international platform where she shares compelling performances and videos for social change.