Etta Madete

Etta Madete is a BORAQS registered Sustainable Design Architect, EDGE Expert, Aspen Senior Fellow passionate about affordable sustainable housing. She is currently the Affordable Housing Lead at BuildX Studio and a Lecturer(TF) at the University of Nairobi. In all capacities she practices, teaches and does research on architectural design innovation that brings sustainable economic, social …

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Masooma Ranalvi

Masooma is an activist who leads efforts to advance the goal of ending female genital mutilation in India by working closely with members of her community, major institutional bodies as well as Civil Society Organizations in India. She has built alliances with the InterAfrica Committee Against Harmful Practices, End FGM Europe, End FGM US, and …

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Akebe Luther King Abia

Akebe is a true One Health leader. Akebe fell in love with environmental microbiology in school, curious about the environmental causes of human disease. Akebe holds a Masters in Microbiology and a DTech in Water Care. He is currently working on the molecular and environmental surveillance of AMR in South Africa. His work focuses on …

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Masego Madzwamuse

Masego Madzwamuse Aspen New Voices Fellow

Over the course of Masego’s career, she has worked on the rights of communities in conservation and has supported social movements advocating for social and economic justice. She has an established track record as a development and conservation policy analyst in Southern Africa. Masego was the youngest person, and the first female person of color, …

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Danjuma Adda

Danjuma is a Nigerian prince and accomplished Public health expert on a mission to raise awareness about Hepatitis. Danjuma was infected with Hep B while in clinical rotations and then lost his own mother to the disease several years later. Even though Hepatitis kills more people per year than HIV/AIDS, it receives just a fraction of …

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