Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga
Social Justice - Equity Bolivia
Gracia has always been interested in working with vulnerable populations, but it wasn’t until she contracted HIV during her anthropology studies that HIV/AIDS advocacy became…
Kui Muraya
Gender Kenya
Kui is an afro-optimist and gender equity champion who believes that for the African continent to truly rise, all people regardless of gender (or any…
Nour Sharara
Health Senegal
Nour is a third-generation Lebanese Senegalese whose interest in public health was spurred by observing customers at her mother’s pharmacy. She eventually went on to…
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…
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…
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…
Renzo Guinto
Environment Philippines
A 2016 Aspen New Voices Fellow, Renzo R. Guinto, MD DrPH is Associate Professor of Global and Planetary Health at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health…
Webster Mavhu
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Zimbabwe
Dr Webster Mavhu is a Social scientist and Global Health practitioner with a PhD in Social science & Public Health from University College London UK,…
Mmaki Jantjies
Education South Africa
Mmaki conducts education technology research focused on increasing STEM education across the African continent through mobile technology. As one of the first black, female South…
Ndidi Nwuneli
Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship, Food Security Nigeria
Ndidi is a serial social entrepreneur who has worked in international development for the past 22 years. As founder of LEAP Africa, one of Nigeria’s…
Cedric Habiyaremye
Food Security Rwanda
Cedric is known as the scientist who brought quinoa to Rwanda and other parts of Africa. Unlike most crops that provide no food before harvest,…
Fredros Okumu
Health Kenya
Fredros is currently the director of science at the Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania’s premier health research institution. In this role, he is focused on malaria…
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