Winnie Cheche
Expertise: Climate Activist Winnie Cheche is a young conservationist, blogger, climate activist, and volunteer from Nairobi, Kenya and Communication Lead at Kenya Environmental Action Network. Growing up in extreme poverty had silenced her for a great part of her life; but, her passion for wildlife and nature helped her find her voice again – one […]
Faaiqa Hartley
Expertise: Economist Faaiqa is an economist whose research has centred on developmental issues in Africa, primarily South Africa. Faaiqa has 10 years of experience in policy development and analysis. She is proficient in economy-wide modelling techniques and formed part of the small team that developed and maintained the suite of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models […]
Malavika Vyawahare
Expertise: Environmental journalist Malavika Vyawahare is an award-winning environmental journalist who shuttles between the concrete jungle of Delhi and the lush forests of Madagascar. She is an alumni of Columbia Journalism School alum. Malavika is currently the Madagascar staff reporter – international news, at Mongabay. She was formerly a science and environment reporter at Hindustan […]
Fahiima Cabdi
Expertise: Environmentalist and Climate Change Justice Advocate Contact Fahiima Cabdi is a committed environmentalist and Climate change justice fighter. She is the founder of Somalia Environmental Action Team (SEAT). SEAT engages with youth and graduates who are interested in advocacy for environmental protection, climate change mitigation, and sustainable development goals. She is currently working with […]
Adelina Maria Mensah
Expertise: Academic Dr. Adelina Mensah is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS), University of Ghana. She served as a senior member with the Department of Marine and Fisheries Sciences (formerly Department of Oceanography & Fisheries) for 10 years before transferring to IESS. She has several years of experience as […]
Catherine Nakalembe
Expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Food security Catherine Nakalembe is the Program Director for NASA Harvest Africa. She uses satellite remote sensing and machine learning to collect data to guide agricultural decision-making and improve the lives of smallholder farmers in Africa. She also provides support and coordination for NASA Harvest Africa’s activities in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. […]
Amina Idan Paul
Expertise: Engineer, Energy and sustainable development specialist Amina Idan Paul is an Engineer and a specialist in energy and sustainable development for the Ministry of Energy in charge of Natural Resources in Djibouti. She was appointed as an Earth Champion, charged with leading the way in the construction of Africa by IGAD-ICPAC in 2021. Amina […]
Portia Adu-Mensah
Expertise: Environmental activist Portia Adu-Mensah is a climate activist and the founder of Dream Hunt, a non-profit in Ghana that works in sustainable development and social-welfare. She advocates for climate justice, specifically the use of clean coal in Ghana. Adu-Mensah is also a national coordinator of the initiative titled 350 Ghana Reducing our Carbon (G-ROC), […]
Adele Boadzo
Expertise: Clean energy activist Adele Boadzo is a clean energy activist and solar entrepreneur with over five years’ experience in Africa’s energy sector. She is passionate about delivering clean energy projects to electrify the continent and is currently a project manager at a South African solar PV company. Adele is an avid researcher and has […]
Amé Rébecca Guelly
Expertise: Climate and Sustainability Expert Amé Rébecca Guelly puts women at the centre of her work while advocating for sustainable development and environmental protection. Amé Rébecca started the Network of Women (Ambassadors of the Environment and Sustainable Development) to harness the potential of women in addressing climate change. She says women have a lot of […]
Liberatha Kawamala
Expertise: Eco-activist Liberatha Kawamala, is a young eco-warrior raised in a rural area in Tanzania who strives to save planet Earth through her social enterprise known as Libe Green Innovation. She is deeply committed to solving the problem of plastic waste in Tanzania through the recycling business. She received an award from the Tony Elumelu […]
Ruth Nyambura
Expertise: Ecofeminism Ruth Nyambura is a Kenyan feminist and organizer whose research interests are primarily on the agrarian political economy/ecology of Africa as well as other parts of the Global South. She has previously worked as the head of advocacy for the African Biodiversity Network (ABN). Nyambura has written extensively on various aspects of the […]
Gloria Majiga-Kamoto
Expertise: Environmental activist Gloria Majiga–Kamoto is a Malawian community development officer and environmental activist, who was awarded the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa, in recognition of her work in advocating for the enforcement of a national ban on the importation, manufacture and distribution of single-use plastics in Malawi, in 2019. In 2015, Malawi passed […]
Dr. Constantia Musvoto
Expertise: Academic researcher, Agriculture Dr. Musvoto holds a PhD in Agricultural Ecology from the University of Zimbabwe. Her key competencies include environmental change and agriculture, the green economy and its role in enhancing rural livelihoods and economic opportunities, systems approaches for managing agricultural landscapes and environmental impacts of agriculture. Bringing the integrative aspect of sustainable […]
Khayaat Fakier
Expertise: Academic researcher, Ecofeminism Dr Fakier is a sociologist with a focus on research in women’s care for others and the environment. Dr Fakier gained her PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is currently senior lecturer at Stellenbosch University and teaches modules on sociology of work, feminisms and women’s engagement in the […]
Yola Mgogwana
Expertise: Climate Activist Yola Mgogwana’s activism started in 2019, when she was just eleven years old, after she became concerned about pollution, unusual weather patterns, and a looming water crisis in her country. Since then she has been an inspiration for youth in Africa to join her in her fight for climate justice. Mgogwana has […]
Ayakha Melithafa
Expertise: Climate Activist Ayakha Melithafa is a South African climate activist on a mission to change the world, Ayakha is one of the continent’s youngest activists. She pursued climate activism after experiencing first-hand the effects of drought on her mother’s farm in South Africa. After some research, she found out about climate change and how […]
Wanjuhi Njoroge
Expertise: Climate Activist Wanjuhi Njoroge, is an avid climate activist and entrepreneur from Kenya who believes that we must be deliberately inclusive to address climate issues. By educating and creating awareness at the community level as well as seeking women’s knowledge in climate issues where it remains untapped. Passionate about her community, Wanjuhi established a […]
Immaculate Akello
Expertise: Lawyer, Climate Activist Immaculate Akello, is a climate change activist and lawyer whose work is transforming the lives of rural women in northern Uganda living along the so-called shea belt community. Akello is the founder of Generation Engage Network, an organization that champions environmental rights and environmental democracy in Northern and Central Uganda. “The […]
Chido Nyaruwata
Expertise: Climate Action Researcher Chido Nyaruwata is a passionate Afro-feminist Researcher, Consultant, and Digital Storyteller whose interests lies in Water & Health Rights, Climate Justice, SRHR in Southern Africa and African feminist literature. She works as a Research Assistant at the Africa Gender Institute. She is an alum of the Young Women’s Leadership Project and […]