Bryan Stevenson is the Founder & Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults. He …
Aissata M.B. Camara is the Deputy Commissioner for Policy & Strategic Initiatives and Chief of Staff in the NYC Mayor’s Office for International Affairs. In this role, she provides international policy guidance to NYC agencies. She also works to strengthen NYC’s strategic leadership on the global stage through partnerships and best practice sharing with local …
Adjoa Kyerematen is President, Ghana Diaspora, Public Affairs Collective. She has over a decade of strategic communications and public affairs experience, both on and off Capitol Hill. She is driven by the art and science of persuasive storytelling on what we should care about, why we should care, and what to do about it. She …
Achaleke Christian Leke serves as the African Union Youth Ambassador for Peace representing the Central African Region. He is a Multi-award-winning peace builder and violent extremism expert with 16 years of experience working as a practitioner, researcher and academic from Cameroon. He is also the Executive Director of a leading youth-led peace-building organization in Cameroon; …
Temwa Gondwe is seasoned trade and development economist. He leads African Export-Import Bank’s deployment of support towards the development of the creatives and cultural industries in Africa through various initiatives such as financing, capacity building, export and investment promotion, and policy advocacy. Prior to joining Afreximbank as Manager for Trade Facilitation in the Intra-African Trade …
Geovanny Vicente-Romero is a Dominican political strategist, lawyer, columnist, international consultant and university professor who teaches strategic communications at Columbia University as an associate lecturer. He specializes in public policy and public administration, and has several years of experience in the public sector, academics, and journalism. He writes a weekly column for CNN as a political …
Cynthia Chigwenya is an African Union’s Youth Ambassador for Southern Africa. She is also a political researcher and pracademic with experience in international policymaking. Her advocacy is grounded in research, having served at think tanks, and published on topical issues including, Europe-Africa relations, transcontinental infrastructure and climate finance in EMEs. Cynthia is a TEDx speaker, …
Dr. Succès Masra is the President of Les Transformateurs (“The Transformers” in English), a major opposition political party in Chad. He is a former Senior Economist at the African Development Bank (AfDB), and a former Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young Global Limited and BNP Paribas Bank Group (Paris, France). As Chad’s political, economic and …
Chido Cleopatra Mpemba currently serves as the African Union Youth Envoy, where her primary focus is to empower young people across the African continent. She works on amplifying youth voices and engaging them in advocacy and policy recommendations. One of the critical aspects of her work is advocating for the meaningful participation of young people …
Chevy Eugene is the Caribbean ambassador for the Pan-African Council (PAC). He leads a collective of entrepreneurs, business leaders, cultural ambassadors, government actors, academics and activists from the Anglophone, Francophone, Spanish and Dutch Caribbean in advancing the Caribbean across sectors. PAC is the premier, action-oriented global leadership organization for visionary Pan-Africanists dedicated to uniting Africa …