Dr.Peace Musiimenta is a professional teacher, Senior Lecturer and researcher at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University. Peace holds a PhD in Gender studies, Masters in Women Studies and a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts with Education from Makerere University. She has a certificate in the Professional Development Programme for Gender Trainers from KIT (Netherlands).

Dr. Peace was hosted as a Guest researchers’ scholarship programme awardee at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Sweden September –December 2022, and research fellow at the University of Jyväskylä, (May,2023). working on her project titled Masculinities revisited: change, continuities and fractures in Western Uganda.

Her current project, Towards transformative gender studies pedagogy for challenging power relations and dominance in academia is funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York as part of the projects under the Center of Excellence in Research, Teaching and Learning (CERTL). Peace’s research interests include gender and agriculture, women’s socio-economic empowerment, gender and education, children and family issues and masculinity studies among others.

She is currently heading the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS) E-learning department; a member of College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Research Ethics Committee (CAES REC), and also mentoring MasterCard Scholarship beneficiaries at Makerere University and other students in different Universities in Uganda. She is passionate about supporting young people to discover themselves.

Julie Bernadette Agum is a Communications and Advocacy Specialist with extensive skills and abilities in designing advocacy and communication strategies, production and management, organisational skills, conflict handling and counseling, monitoring and tracking skills.

Julie has worked with both the government sector nationally and internationally and the NGO sector. She has managed several projects such as the AIDS Control Program and the Adolescents Development Program (UNICEF-Government of Uganda funded) and served as a member of National Technical Resource Network (Information, Communication and Advocacy) and provided input on key issues.

She worked with the UN Mission in Liberia on Political Affairs, Civil Affairs, and Human Rights with the Military and Police to build up and provide communication and advocacy products on Gender, Child Protection, Civilian Protection, Rule of Law and the Electoral Process for top management. Julie was instrumental in training child broadcasters in radio programming and production to take charge of the air waves. She is a qualified Health and Wellness Coach.

Shubey Nantege is a creative thinker and social entrepreneur. She is a peace advocate through Generation Change Uganda Chapter under the United States Institute of Peace.

Shubey is the Executive Director of Go Girl Africa,  a Business Development Director at Labour World Connect, and the Director of Great Habib Smart Farm Academy.

She is passionate about human rights, peace and tolerance, reproductive health and youth economic empowerment.

Shubey has a vision to inspire positive action among girls and women everywhere to challenge the status quo and be the best they can be.

Ednah Karamagi is a researcher, trainer, farmer, and a consultant with over 25 years of working experience in both the profit and non-profit making arena.

She is currently the Program Director of Adding Value to Agriculture Products (AVAP). Before farming, Ednah served as the Executive Director of BROSDI for sixteen years.

During the last quarter, she took Sabbatical leave of a year, during which time, she took on a job with Uganda Meat Producers Cooperative Union (UMPCU) as their Resource Mobilization Officer; the aim being to understand how cooperatives work and revert that skill to BROSDI. Before working with BROSDI, she worked as a Deputy Director for Kabarole Research & Resource Center (KRC) for three years.

She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (Mathematics, Geography & Psychology) and has numerous certificates from short courses that she has undertaken to enable her to boost her job performance over the years.

Ednah possesses diverse skills that have been developed either through training or self-taught lessons such as: program building and management, gender and feminism, employee relations, training and capacity building, organization fundraising, media analysis, building and managing networks, conference organization and facilitation, content management, lobbying and advocacy, and among others.

James Oriekot is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) of Uganda and a practicing member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU).

James is the Managing Partner of Edite, Oriekot & Associates CPA, a firm of professionals that provides world statutory, forensic, and institutional and grant/project audits, tax, financial management, accountancy, training and consultancy services.

James holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Uganda Management Institute (UMI), and he is a practicing accountant and member of ICPAU. He holds various academic and professional awards and certifications with over eighteen (18) years of working experience.

James has a wealth of knowledge in statutory, forensic, institutional and grant/project audits, tax, financial management, accountancy and other advisory services.

He has lectured, conducted audit and assurance services, taxation and financial Management at Zenith Business College.

Dr. Angela Nakafeero is currently serving as the Commissioner of Gender and Women Affairs at the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development.

As a Commissioner, she spearheads the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Uganda Gender Policy, plans and programmes aimed at achieving gender equality and women empowerment. 

She is the chair of the recently established Covid-19 sub-committee on Gender Based Violence and Violence Against Children in Uganda. She is  a member of the International Advisory Group for the None in Three (NI3), a global research initiative of Huddersfield University with the UK Government on ending GBV through pro-social gaming.

She is a member of the National SDG Technical Committee. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Huddersfield University- UK. 

Dr. Angela serves on the board of the Anti-Corruption Coalition of Uganda (ACCU) as the Treasurer, co- chair of the African Union Specialized Technical Committee on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (AU STC GEWE) and she chairs several technical committees in Uganda.  

Dr. Angela was the Gender Technical Advisor at Ministry of Education and Sports, and spearheaded the development and implementation of the National Strategic Plan on elimination of Violence Against Children in Schools (2015-2020), development and operationalisation of the reporting, tracking, referral and response guidelines on violence against children in schools, the review of the Gender in Education Policy (2007) and development of training manuals. She was the Programme Coordinator for the Parliamentary Gender Budget Programme (2011-2013) which contributed to the adoption of gender and equity responsive budgeting as a key practice under the Public Finance Management Act (2015). 

She has served on many committees and Board of Directors including the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative Global Advisory Committee (UNGEI GAC), Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE), Development Alternatives (DELTA) and Forum for African Women Educationalists Uganda (FAWE-U). Dr. Angela’s passion is gender equality and women’s empowerment agenda.

Fridah Mutesi is a Ugandan feminist, human rights, civil liberties lawyer and an ardent advocate for equality for all.

Mutesi is a practicing advocate in the Courts of Judicature in Uganda and has been at the forefront of challenging laws and practices that subjugate structurally excluded women, gender and sexual diverse persons.

She is an author, researcher and consultant in the fields of access to justice, sexual reproductive health and rights, gender and the law.

Fridah holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB-Hons), a postgraduate Diploma and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Women and Gender Studies.