Wuraoluwa Ayodele is a Lawyer and Women Rights Activist. She has five years of experience in the non-profit and community development sector, skilled in Civic Engagement and law practice. As a lawyer, she strongly identifies as a feminist with her focus on gender equality and women rights as well as the protection and rehabilitation of women and girls facing Gender-Based Violence (GBV).

Wuraoluwa is the founder/Program Director of Women Safe House Sustenance Initiative, where she provides Shelter, Healthcare and Legal Aid services to female vicims of all forms Violence across Nigeria. She is the Welfare Secretary of the International Federation of Women Lawyers, Oyo State, where she offers pro bono legal services to Women and girls facing violence in Oyo State, Nigeria.

Wuraoluwa is a Mandela Washington Fellow driven by her passion for eliminating Gender Based Violence and providing support for female rape survivors as well as other women and girls facing all forms of violence in Nigeria.

Queen Nwanyinnaya Chikwendu, is an enterprising young woman with an insatiable passion to impact and influence the 21st century youths through proactive teaching, mentoring and exemplary leadership. She is a fellow, Margaret Ekpo Youth Fellowship.

As a young feminist and the out-going National President, National Female Students Association of Nigeria with a keen interest in mobilizing young women in leadership, she has organized various capacity building programmes for the young female students of Nigeria which geared towards stimulating their interests in the political and civic processes of their communities. She is the Vice President emeritus, Students Union Government, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka with a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature. As a skilled and passionate advocate for human development, gender equality and girl-child education, she engages in series of mentoring, coaching and capacity building for female students across institutions in Nigeria. She believes that closing the huge gap in women representation in leadership and governance in Nigeria is the foundation for achieving the Agenda 2030; thus, there is a dire need for the young women participation in political parties, advocacy campaigns and coalition-building. Through her partnership with Education as a Vaccine and Stand to End Rape Initiative, female Union leaders of all the institutions in Nigeria have been actively recruited into the fight against sexual harassments and abuse in our tertiary institutions.

She is a member of Young AfricaLeaders Initiative and #Sisterskeeper Lead on Academia Engagement, Zahara’s Dream Forum, New York and currently, the Partnership Engagement Officer, Girlup Nigeria, a United Nations Foundation Club whose mission is to ignite the empowerment of girls, by girls around the world.

She has many certifications on Understanding Human Rights, Understanding the Rights of Women and Girls, Community Organizing for Action, Management Strategies for People and Resources, Synergizing Non-Violent Actions and Peacebuilding and many more. She is a volunteer to many organizations.

Igube Veronica Pana is the Co- Founder, We Ignite Lives for Greatness Initiative Nigeria. She is an Associate Counsel at Technology Advisors (ICT Lawyers| Consultants) with a specialization in Technology Law. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Abuja (2012) and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2013. She is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA- SBL) and International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA). She is a Fellow of the Margret Ekpo Youth Fellowship 2020, TIJ- UNODC Borderless Youth Fellowship 2020, African Presidential Leadership Program (APLP) 2019 and a Mentee, Nigerian Women Trust Fund (NWTF) 2020. She has a Blog, Thinking Out Loud with Veronica, an educational, motivational, and life lessons blog. She touches on everything from motivational and inspirational stories, volunteering opportunities, global trends, trailblazers to sharing opportunities.

Emitomo Tobi Nimisire is a Writer, Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) advocate, and Common Purpose Fellow, and Communications strategist. She runs an online platform called ASKNIMI, where people can ask questions anonymously on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights. Nimisire is committed to working on, and creating programs and projects that will improve the quality of human lives, especially women and girls.

Adek Bassey has over 5 years of experience in adolescents and young people programming with interest in achieving 2 out of 17 Global Action(SDG 3 &16) among young people. Currently Adek Bassey is the founder & executive director of Today for tomorrow foundation(TFT) where for the past three years has saw the organization consistently engaging with young people in Nigeria at two States (Cross River State and Adamawa State) to constantly develop solutions that is aimed at achieving SDG 3 &16 thereby, protecting Adolescent and young people from all forms of violence, prevent unplanned future and reach their full potentials including the socially vulnerable marginalized population street kids and IDPs, She has also use her capacity to work for other organizations as a program officer, community quality improvement analyst, community mobilize/facilitator as well as UNFPA, YouthHub Africa and Eva social media advocate and 2019-2020 Global shapers Calabar Hub Curator, a 2020 women deliver fellow, a YALI RLC cohort 15 fellow, 2020 Margaret Ekpo Fellow, a story teller where she shares her life stories to inspire many young people through her podcast series on @iamdevoice.

Adek Bassey holds a Bachelor degree in Public Health and an HND in Environmental Health. Her core competencies includes Strategic Planning & Evaluation, Collaboration & Network Building, Media Community & Public Relations, communication and facilitation, Policy Development and Administration amongst others. Adek Bassey is committed to creating platforms where adolescents and young people make informed decisions, protected from all forms of violence, reach their full potentials and prevent unplanned future as well as being actively involved in policy and decision making, identifying and proffering long lasting solutions to problems affecting them.

Boluwatito Sanusi is a fifth year law student at the University of Lagos, and is passionate about women’s rights & equipping young African women with the resources to tell their own stories. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Through the Eyes of African Women, an organization dedicated to empowering young African women to their narratives through research and collaboration with African women scholars and activists. She has co-organized various protests which has started conversations and produced policy changes such as #SayHerNameNigeria and #JusticeForUwa. Boluwatito also enjoys Model UNs, and has participated as either a delegate or staff in 4 conferences. She served as the Vice Chair of UN Women for Lagos Model United Nations 2020.

Tawakalit Kareem is a Communications Professional and advocate for Gender Equality. She works in Communications across non-governmental organizations that focus on women and improving access to quality education. Tawakalit is an Alumnus of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI); an Ambassador, Africa4Her; a 2020 ONE Nigeria Champion; a member of the Commonwealth Youth Gender Equality Network; and a member, 2019 Class of PEIFFund, Inc. Her works on gender equality and peace, particularly in the African context, have been published on reputable platforms in Nigeria and Ghana. She has also reviewed Issue Papers on topical subjects in the development sector for the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI). Tawakalit is the Founder of The Butterfly Project (TBP), a not for profit initiative that provides free digital skills training for young women, free menstrual pads to girls and provided direct funding to about 200 families across underserved communities during the first phase of the Coronavirus lock down. Her work with The Butterfly Project has been featured by the United Nations Children’s Fund’s ‘Voices of Youth’, The Nigeria Youth Sustainable Development Goals Network, and Nigerian Tribune.

Tongs Nenkus is a student Union Leader, a community Developer, a Feminist, a Gender Advocate, She is a Young Women Political Leadership Fellow GenCed, the Program Coordinator SHE CAN LEAD, Tongs is Passionate about women inclusion in Leadership and politics and has been advocating for women’s inclusion in her small Community, Tongs has been and will continue to advocate for Gender Justice and Violence against women and girls.

Oluwadamilola Akintewe is a 21 years old Nigerian law student, social entrepreneur and gender activist. Actively involved in feminist organising and movement building, she has over 3 years experience in community based project management committed towards disrupting and dismantling systems of oppression against women’s rights in Nigeria and beyond. Oluwadamilola Akintewe has supported over 3000 girls with career mentorship since 2017 and created avenues for financial inclusion for women through entrepreneurship. She is also the founder of Forbidden Topics, a feminist initiative amplifying female voices against social injustices (www.forbiddentopics.com). She was the youngest on the 2020 “top 100 women creating change in Africa” list by We For Good International in 2020 and was selected by Ford with a group of 15 students from 4 continents for the Ford Community Impact Fellowship. She is also holding the title “Miss Speaker Africa 2020”.

Vinaprisca is Founder of Girl Power Afrique, an online forum that aims to empower & build a network of African women. She is also the Communication Officer of Knit Together Initiative, a non-governmental organization that works to promote the sexual & reproductive health rights of young people, and gender equality. Vinaprisca is a trained adolescents and youths sexual and reproductive health rights advocate.

She is passionate about putting an end to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in Nigeria. An alumni of Alpha Global Leadership Academy (cohort 9), Vinaprisca also holds a BSc. in Biochemistry from the University of Port Harcourt. She is a global youth voice against Gender Based Violence (GBV) ambassador & a nominee of the 120 Under40- new generation of family planning young leaders. Vinaprisca is skilled in graphics designing, video editing, creative/content writing and digital marketing.

Sadiya Murtala is an advocate for Women’s Economic Empowerment. She is the founder and currently the Executive Director of WeCan Africa Initiative- a youth-led organization that empowers women and marginalized groups through its range of programs on vocational and life skills; entrepreneurial, leadership and digital skills trainings. She has empowered hundreds of adolescents and vulnerable women and girls with vocationa skills and information that has made them pursue their dreams. Sadiya Murtala is a youth fellow of Margret Ekpo. She holds an undergraduate degree(Bachelor of science) at Bayero University Kano, where she graduated with Upper Second Class in Mass Communication.

Lawyer, Communicator, Women Human Rights Defender

I am Khadija Ishaq Bawas a young Journalists who ventured into Journalism in Late 2017 Reporting For Liberty TV /Radio and freelancing for TimeBase Tv – an Independent Online News Outlet. I am a Development Journalist with a special interest in telling stories about life, new Inventions and plights of Women, Young Girls and common people. I advocate for women’s Sexual Reproductive Health and rights I Am a Member, Network of Reproductive Health Journalists in Nigeria, I am also a Change Ambassador for Peace and Humanity: by Youth Education and Leadership Initiative (YELI). In 2019 I became A Fellow African Science Literacy Network Presently I am the Board Director of Azmeerah Production Limited, an independent media production outfit

Oluwatobi Ayodele is a feminist and Communications consultant currently consulting for the Centre for International Private Enterprise. She is also a Initiating and Planning Projects alumni at the University of California, Irvine. She currently holds the position of the Program Manager at Vision Spring Initiatives (VSI) and is responsible for developing and implementing all program activities at VSI. She has valuable experience in developing programs that directly impacts positively on women and girls and also has a track record of mentoring young people on Gender Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. She is passionate about Gender equality and eliminating violence against women and girls. She believes that women’s right are human rights and should be treated as such without any discrimination. She is a graduate from Caleb University where she obtained her first degree in Business Administration.

On the surface, Benson Comfort is a certified Accountant with over 4 years of experience in finance, mentoring and writing. She always ensures the viability of financial statements. She is so efficient at her job that she considers herself a “financial portfolio whisperer.” More than her role as a financial accountant, she is passionate about making impact and giving back to the world. This is why she volunteered for UNICEF-Girls Education Project3, Interned at E-CELL IIT Bombay as a Campus ambassador, Lends her voice to Amnesty International and ONE Campaigns. She is passionate about reducing the inequality in sexes and gender based violence. Which is why she is a member of The Margaret Ekpo Youth Fellowship.

Grace has 6 years’ experience in the non-profit sector with focus on the health and rights of women, adolescents and young people. Presently, she is working with Education as a Vaccine (EVA) as the Program Coordinator, Advocacy and Policy Influencing. Prior to this position at EVA, Grace coordinated Psychosocial Support Services provision for survivors of gender based violence at the International Centre for Sexual Reproductive Rights (INCRESE).

In the last 5 years, Grace has been a facilitator at a weekly capacity building program for adolescent girls on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, Leadership and life skills where over 500 girls have graduated. In 2016, she volunteered to support psychosocial service/needs assessment of survivors of gender based violence in the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno state. Grace is a Young African Leaders Initiative, Regional Leadership Centre (YALI RLC) West Africa alumni, ONE Champion 2018 and World Literacy Foundation Ambassador 2020. Grace enjoys travelling and reading.

Blessing Omotunde is a gender specialist with over five years of experience in social advocacy, women’s rights and empowerment, girl-child education, and capacity building for the vulnerable. She is currently the Project Coordinator on Education and Livelihood Support at Gender Mobile, a non-profit organisation leveraging technology to provide information and other services including legal, counselling, and livelihood support. Blessing has led special community projects in over 15 rural communities where she engages and empowers adolescents with knowledge on Gender-Based Violence prevention and reporting and facilitates access to sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Gender and Development Studies and a Bachelor’s Degree from the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti. She is passionate about building a resilient generation with a firm commitment to changing the gender narrative in Africa one step at a time.

Wemimo Adewuni is a multimedia journalist and media trainer with 9 years experience in Radio and TV production and presentation, as well as documentary film making. She is a fellow of the Female Reporters’ Leadership Programme of Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism in collaboration with Free Press Unlimited. She also made the shortlist of the BBC KOMLA Dumor award in 2018. Passionate about impact Journalism, she is the Founder and Creative Director of MEDRIVE ( @medriveng, www.medrive.org) a media hub that provides trainings and mentoring for African journalists. She has trained about over 150 journalists in one year. She works as the Senior Editor Advocacy and Gender Issues, telling stories of underreported minorities. She’s also the host of Table Talk, a weekly talk show on Nigeria’s most trusted News,Talk and Sports station – Nigeria Info 99.3fm Lagos

Amina Haruna is a Sociologist, peer educator trainer ,Proactive social/development worker, fellow of the African change marker, Global goodwill ambassador, Member Nigeria youths on SDGs Margaret Ekpo youth fellowship. with over 5 years’ experience working in research, project management, public speaking, women, girl and youth on sexual reproductive health, gender equality, girls education and sustainable empowerment etc, with background in planning and implementing of strategies, reporting writing and advocacy/community mobilization.