Farai is a Partner Management Lead at Youth Employment Service (YES). YES is a business-led NPO that works in partnership with government and labor to initiate policy changes that create jobs for the youth. Prior to YES, Farai served as a project manager at The Aurum Institute, a leading African TB and HIV research, and …
Tiffany Callender is the CEO & Co-Founder of the Federation of African Canadian Economics (FACE) and Executive Director of the Cote des Neiges Black Community Association, one of the oldest Black Community organizations in Quebec. Her latest projects have been; Strategic advisory on the recent repossession of the oldest Black landmark- after AfricVille – in …
Experienced and accomplished Advocate and Campaign or Project Manager with a demonstrated history of lobbying and working in the civic & social justice sector. Skilled in policy (analysis and advocacy), research, public speaking, and customer service. Postgraduate Certificate in EU Policy-Making student. Holds an MSocSc (Rights and Social Policy) and a BA(Hons) in Community and …
Leo Nupolu Johnson is an experienced non-profit executive, entrepreneur, human rights specialist, public speaker, and United Nations Fellow. As a teenager, he spent eight years in refugee camps in Ivory Coast and Ghana after fleeing from the civil war in his native Liberia. In 2006, he resettled in Canada as a government-assisted refugee. Leo Nupolu …
As an anthropologist of religion, Youssef is interested in the manner in which religious discourses and movements become oriented in the direction of abolition. He is fascinated with how Muslims in the United States and in West Africa interpret their religion as a means of empowerment in the face of oppression while relying on scripture …
Tosin Durotoye sits at the helm of GreenHouse Lab, the first female-focused tech accelerator program in Nigeria. The first of its kind in the country, GreenHouse Lab is a three-month accelerator focused solely on early-stage, women-led technology start-ups in sub-Saharan Africa and African-run start-ups domiciled in the US or UK with products that are scalable in …
Vanessa Mbonu is the Digital Director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), headquartered in Baltimore. An experienced public relations and communications professional, Mbonu is primarily responsible for communicating the historic organization’s federal advocacy and policy initiatives through digital campaigns, media relations and integrated marketing. Prior to joining NAACP, she was an account executive …
Nyeleti Honwana is a leading scholar on youth, protest movements, and social change in Africa. Honwana is currently Inter-Regional Adviser on social development policy at the United Nations in New York. She has been a Centennial Professor and the Strategic Director of the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa at London School of Economics and Political …
Nicholas André G. Johnson has engaged in optimization and machine learning research at MIT, Princeton University, Oxford University and the Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms. He is currently a PhD student in Operations Research, the study of how to make good decisions with limited information in uncertain environments, at MIT where he is working towards …
Muhammed Lamin Saidykhan is an award winning Pan African Advocate of the year 2018 and was named as 100 most influential young people leaders in Africa in 2019. As a human rights activist he organised widespread protests to get long Gambia dictator Yaya Jammeh to step down. Muhammed Lamin the Movement Coordinators of Africans Rising …