Community

We support locally-rooted, globally networked innovative leaders around the globe through our Fellowship programs and government partnerships. Explore our community database below to learn more.

Andre Ndayambaje

Andre Ndayambaje

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Rwanda

Andre is a midwife and neonatal nurse who is passionate about ending preventable maternal and child deaths. He was drawn to midwifery after nearly losing…

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Donald SINGUE

Donald SINGUE

Environment
Ivory Coast (Cote D`Ivoire)

Donald SINGUE is a development economist and finance expert who guides African Governments on strengthening their financial resilience against climate change and being better prepared…

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Monique Castro

Monique Castro

Health
CA, United States

Monique Castro is a citizen of the Diné (Navajo) Nation and Xicana. She was born and raised on the ancestral homelands of the Tongva People…

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Marlene Cerritos-Rivas

Marlene Cerritos-Rivas

Health
MA, United States

Marlene Cerritos-Rivas (she/ella) is a health equity advocate and a community organizer at heart. Her passion for ensuring every person has access to quality health…

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Masego Madzwamuse

Masego Madzwamuse

Environment, Governance
Botswana

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…

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Sonali Vaid

Sonali Vaid

Health
India

Sonali Vaid is a physician and a public health specialist. For over a decade she has focused on the application of quality improvement science to…

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Thilmeeza Hussain

Thilmeeza Hussain

Environment, Governance
Maldives

Thilmeeza Hussain is the Permanent Representative of the Maldives to the United Nations, and non-resident High Commissioner to Canada, posts she assumed in 2019. Ms….

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Sathya Ragu

Sathya Ragu

Food Security
India

Sathya Raghu is the Co-founder and President at Cosmos Green & Kheyti, organizations with small farmer focus that he set up after quitting his corporate…

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Agnes Igoye

Agnes Igoye

Gender
Uganda

Displaced at 14, Agnes flee the Lord’s Resistance Army when they raided her village in search of virgins. Today she is the Regional Migration Expert…

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Fatou Ndow

Fatou Ndow

Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship, Health
Gambia

Fatou Ndow is an experienced public health program leader specialising in HIV, sexual & reproductive health and nutrition. She uses research; to design, implement and…

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Samuel “SAS” Kargbo

Samuel “SAS” Kargbo

Health
Sierra Leone

Dr. Samuel Kargbo is the director of Health Systems, Policy, Planning and Information in the in Ministry of Health & Sanitation of Sierra Leone. His…

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Fenny Louise Taylor-Diggs

Fenny Louise Taylor-Diggs

Gender, Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Liberia

Fenny Louise Taylor-Diggs is a social entrepreneur and reproductive health specialist specializing in menstrual health and gender equity. As the founder of a Urmonae Health…

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