Category: FA Board

Maria Alesi is a Social Worker passionate about social justice. Her work involves providing programme and strategic support to community-based activists across Uganda to ensure their efforts contribute to the protection and protection of human rights. She works with activists working in the areas of women’s rights, migrant rights, natural resource governance, and restoring democracy…

Natacha Bruna is a post-doctoral associate at the Department of Global Development, Cornell University. She holds a Ph.D. in Development Studies – International Institute of Social Studies in the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She worked as a researcher and still a member of a Mozambican independent research institution – Observatório do Meio Rural. Her…

Nana Akua Anyidoho is an Associate Professor and currently the Director of the Centre for Social Policy Studies at the University of Ghana. She has a PhD in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University and is interested in the ways in which marginalised social groups, particularly women and young people, work and advocate…

Lyn Ossome is Associate Professor and Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University, and has also taught at Wits University and Yale University as a Visiting Presidential Professor. She holds a doctorate in Political Studies from Wits University, with specializations in the fields of feminist political economy and feminist political theory and…

Coumba Touré has more than 30 years of experience in leading, implementing and evaluating programs for social justice globally based in Senegal, she is the Chair of TrustAfrica.org, and serves on the board member of Women Building up. She is the founder of Invisible Giants foundation (https://www.geantesinvisibles.com) to document the stories and celebrate women working…

Lilian Lem Atanga is an Associate Professor of Gender and Discourse Studies, formerly of the Department of African Studies of the University of Dschang, the University of Bamenda, and Fulbright Scholar at the University of Florida, USA. She is currently a senior research fellow at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, and…

Hanan Sabea is an Associate Professor and Sociology-Anthropology Graduate Program Advisor Editor-in-Chief of Cairo Papers in Social Science at The American University in Cairo (AUC). Here interests in anthropology started in Egypt, where she got her BA and MA at The American University in Cairo (AUC) working on issues related to development, resettlement of populations,…

Assistant Professor – Universidade Eduardo Mondlane; Researcher – Kaleidoscopio – Research in Public Policy and Culture; Mozambique Sandra Manuel is an anthropologist. Her career comprises a combination of academic research and lecturing as well as research towards public policy. She is an experienced researcher with a specific focus on sexuality, gender and health themes. She belongs…

Abena Takyiwa Yeboah is the Programme Officer on the Feminist Africa Project at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.

Dinnah Nabwire has 12 years of work experience supporting intervention designs for sexual and reproductive health, violence prevention, mental health and psychosocial support programmes targeting women and children in development, humanitarian, and post-conflict settings. She has served in knowledge management, policy, advocacy, research, learning and communications capacities in national, regional and international organisations with physical placement…