OGIP Youth Advocates Network

Okech Annete Adhiambo is a Kenyan, a social entrepreneur and feminist community organizer. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Africnette, a social enterprise that supports women and youth handmade artisans in rural Africa. She is a trained peacebuilder of Peace Building Institute Rwanda and IBuild Africa Tunisia. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Finance.

Fatema Ahmadi worked at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Kabul as the Peace Process Program Officer supporting diverse beneficiaries including high-level Afghan women, journalists, researchers, youth and communities. Among the projects she managed was a program on Synergizing Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding (SNAP), which prepared young people from different backgrounds to initiate non-violent responses toward violent actions.

Evelyn Anyiko is the founder of Not Forsaken Child, an organization that works to support orphans, widows and communities impacted by civil war. Evelyn is also the Sponsorship Officer, Children’s Hope Chest, Uganda. She has experience delivering training in conflict resolution, promoting children’s access to education and working with communities to create income-generating activities to support conflict recovery.

Damilola Babatunde is a Peacebuilder and Gender Equality Advocate. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Young Changemakers Foundation (YCF); a youth-led and impact-oriented organization that is focused on positively transforming people and communities through peacebuilding and empowerment initiatives/projects.

Isabella works at the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Crisis Bureau at HQ as a Programme Analyst with the Preventing Violent Extremism team. In this role she coordinates the team’s gender and women, peace, and security portfolio and UNDP’s work with religious actors, and acts as the PVE focal point for country offices in the Arab States.

Nolliettie is a Senior Superintendent in the Malawi Police Service and a peace mediation advocate and expert. In her role she works on mediation, informal conflict and peace processes, and building strategies for effective engagement of women in conflict prevention and management.

Mohammed Foboi holds an MSc in International Relations from the School of Global and Public Affairs at IE University, Madrid. He has more than 13 years experience in youth peacebuilding, public policy, youth and community mobilization, leadership and communication in countries across Africa, Europe and the Americas.

Innah Gaspar is the Senior Digital Strategist at the Migration Project for the European Climate Foundation - empowering grassroots organizations with digital tactics to amplify campaigns on climate change, migration and racial justice.

Aya is a Freelance Artist, trainer and former social worker. She has wide ranging experience with NGOS in community mobilisation and sensitization.

Maryam holds a bachelor degree in Business Administration and a minor in Gender Studies from the American University of Iraq Sulimani. She is also a USIP Generation Change fellow 2019 with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Lea is a young Congolese activist, committed to the fight for gender equality and youth empowerment. A graduate from the Higher Institute for Rural Development in Bukavu, Lea founded Young Enemies of Hunger, working towards the consolidation of peace and a future without violence for the DRC.

Isabela Karibjanian is a student at the University of Oxford, where she is pursuing a Master of Science in Global Governance & Diplomacy. At the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG)—a pro bono global law firm that provides free legal assistance to parties involved in peace negotiations, drafting post-conflict constitutions, and transitional justice—she currently works as Junior Peace Fellow.

Dr. Tishya Khillare works as a Fellow at the Council for Strategic and Defense Research (CSDR), New Delhi. She holds a doctorate from the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University and specializes in Women, Peace and Security related issues. Dr. Khillare's doctoral research developed insights into the politics of negotiating women’s bodily integrity at the United Nations.

As the first and only peace-psychologist from Kashmir & South-Asia, Ufra has been working at the intersection of psychology, arts, conflict transformation and peacebuilding for the past decade. She works at grassroots and management levels, in different parts of South-Asia (Kashmir, Myanmar, Afghanistan, pan-India), and USA.

Nfor Ethel Mulih is a Food Security and Livelihoods Coordinator at One Peace, a youth-led, non-profit peacebuilding organization in Cameroon. She builds peace through sustainable agriculture and entrepreneurship. She undertakes food security and livelihoods assessment in conflict affected grassroots communities.

Mary Patrick is a Peace Ambassador at Global Peace Chain and at the Institute for Economics and Peace. She is a member and a volunteer with Kenya Red Cross, Nature Kenya, United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth, GYBN, AWID, YMCA Kenya and Yali Network.

Adelin Pierre is leading several youth organizations working on environment, youth, peace and security. In 2018, he joined the United Network Of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) on behalf of Conseil Consultatif de Jeunes, a youth-led organization working on peacebuilding.

Rezwan is the Asia Regional Coordinator for the Coalition of Sexual and Bodily Rights in Bangladesh. He also currently volunteers as a Project Coordinator, Inclusive Bangladesh at the Commonwealth Youth and Gender Equality Network. Through his work, Rezwan conducts employability skill development projects for the vulnerable youths living in the rural and remote areas of Bangladesh.

Abhishek Sharma is a Ph.D. Candidate in Korean Studies at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, where his research focuses on the intersection between New Emerging Technologies and the Geopolitics of East Asia. He is a Non-Resident Kelly fellow at Pacific Forum. He holds a First-Class Master’s degree in International Relations from South Asian University.

Tirso Sitoe is the Executive Director and Researcher of Bloco 4 Foundation - Research in citizenship, activism and social policies. He has a master's degree and a postgraduate degree in intercultural relations from Open University (Lisbon) and a degree in Anthropology from Eduardo Mondlane University. His research focuses on political and governance processes, youth identification process, human rights, and critical music and social protest in post-colonial Mozambique.

Nyachangkuoth Rambang Tai is a feminist, human rights defender certified by frontline defenders Ireland, and a seasoned peacebuilding trainer, certified by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). She has formerly held roles such as the Special Assistant to the AU Chairperson on Policy and Strategic Relations with the AU organs, co-founder of The Mother Care Organization and Gender and Social Justice Manager at Assistance Mission for Africa (AMA).

Maya is currently pursuing a Masters in Global Governance and Diplomacy at Oxford University. She is a passionate advocate for the importance of a gendered perspective in peacebuilding and the necessity of working towards sustainable and equitable peace, as well as LGBTQ+ and religious diversity issues.

Roxana is the President of the NGO Women Riots and the monitor for the Zulia women's network, part of Amnesty International Venezuela (AIVen). Roxana is also the local coordinator of the Váyalo Foundation.

Salma is a trained lawyer and consultant for civil society organizations, governments, international, regional and national agencies. Salma is also a sitting Member of the Commonwealth Women Mediators Network. She has served in multiple roles and capacities, from being a civil society activist, a University lecturer and researcher, a journalist and a Public Official of the Government of Sri Lanka.

Esther is the founder of Section 20, a youth organization working for youth in marginalized and hard to reach communities in Zimbabwe. Section 20 provides constitutional literacy among many other services. Esther has growing experience in movement building and strategic advocacy. She has served as advisor to Zimbabwe's Youth Minister and Co-Chaired the governance and legislation committee at the Political Actors Dialogue Forum.