Jabraan Pasha
Health OK, United States
Dr. Jabraan Pasha is a physician, educator and social activist. He currently serves as an associate professor of internal medicine and assistant dean of student…
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…
Stephen Lucke
Food Security TX, United States
Stephen Lucke, Founder of Gardopia Gardens, is food systems expert and activist focusing on health and environmental justice who educates and empowers communities on how to…
Mary Mwanyika
Health Tanzania
Mary Mwanyika-Sando, MD, spearheaded improvements in maternal and child health programs in Dar es Salaam, rolling out anti-retroviral treatment in dozens of clinics as part…
Kennedy Odede
Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship Kenya
Kennedy is one of Africa’s best- known community organizers and social entrepreneurs. For twenty-three years Kennedy lived in the Kibera Slum, the largest slum in…
Desmond Jumbam
Health Cameroon
Desmond is a Ghana-based health policy consultant whose pointed critique of neocolonialist thinking in global development – “How (Not) To Write About Global Health”, published…
Mohamed Ali
Governance Kenya
Mohamed Ali fled Somalia’s civil war with his family, part of an exodus of refugees escaping a conflict which left the country in tatters. But…
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…
Alana Peterson
Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship AR, United States
Alana Peterson, Executive Director of Spruce Root, is an entrepreneur and non-profit leader whose lived experience brings together indigenous values with Western economic systems to build towards…
Kassahun Bilcha
Health Ethiopia
Kassahun Bilcha, MD, is currently a resident physician at Emory University, Atlanta, GA. He served as a Clinical Director of Gondar University Hospital in Gondar,…
Nicole Harris-Hollingsworth
Health NY, United States
Dr. Hollingsworth is a community health expert and health systems researcher focused on data sharing and engagement to promote better interactions between communities and health…
Chauntel Norris
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights AL, United States
Chauntel Norris is a DONA trained birth doula, Lamaze trained childbirth educator and a Certified Lactation Counselor. She serves as the Manager of Advocacy, Forward…
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