Yvonne Leina Chi is an award winning international journalist and Women’s Rights Activist.She is Founder and CEO of the Women Relief Services where she joins forces with local women to combat harmful cultural practices against women and girls in African Communities.She is also the Global Outreach Strategist for World Pulse, where she engages women in different communities world wide in digital empowerment and storytelling for social impact.She is a member of the board of directors at World Pulse.She is an avid storyteller, Media trainer and vision builder for women change makers with over 10 years of experience. She holds a Masters degree in Peace, Governance and Development from the United Nations University for Peace and is a trained Mediator at the Clingendael Institute of International Relations in the Netherlands.
Grace is the CEO of Adelaar Energy and an advisory board member of the African Energy Chamber. She commenced her professional journey as an audit staff at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) before she transitioned to the energy industry. She started off as a Business Planning and Economic Analyst for Shell Cameroon and then worked as a Business Analyst and Economist for Shell Nigeria for several years. She also worked as a senior manager (business planning and economics) at a medium-sized multi-national company, Addax Petroleum (SINOPEC Company) before moving to Eroton Exploration & Production Company, one of Nigeria’s biggest indigenous startups where she served as a senior manager in Business strategy and economics.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Buea in Cameroon, an MBA from the University of Warwick, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in strategic management at the International School of Management in France.
With a passion for women inclusion, participation, and empowerment, particularly in the energy industry, Grace prides herself as a founding member of the African Women in Business Energy Network (AWBEN). An initiative by the African Energy Chamber, AWBEN’s key initiatives include inciting collaboration among African women and other women networks in the energy industry, hosting mentorship programs to empower women to take ownership of their personal and career development, offering coaching and sponsorship opportunities for girls in STEM, creating avenues to encourage not just African women-participation but also more women in leadership roles in the industry plus leveraging digital technology to enhance such goals.
Juliette is a highly motivated and diligent sustainable development professional with a keen interest in global environmental issues, gender equality and human rights-based approaches to development. She has extensive experiences in gender mainstreaming and empowerment approaches through her more than 15years of managing development projects with both local and international organizations in the central and west Africa regions, in which she strives at the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action, peace and security. She currently serves as a monitoring and evaluation specialist in UNDP Guinea Bissau, where she also ensures gender -responsiveness of projects and programs thereby supporting the United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action at the local and national level. Juliette is certified project management practitioner (PRINCE 2 & CAPM holder) and an accredited member of the “Africa network of women in conflict prevention and mediation (FEMWISE) Africa; an initiative of the Africa Union Peace & Security Department, and also a member of the “African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of disputes” (ACCORD), South Africa.
Gwendolin is a Social Worker and community worker with over 13 years of experience, with an unwavering drive of supporting, working and empowering vulnerable individuals and families with multiple layers of problems and unmet wellbeing outcomes. Having worked with the Welsh Assembly Government in the United Kingdom through a litany of different projects and coupled with her thirst to meet the wholistic well-being outcomes of vulnerable families/communities, this earned her, the current role of Chair of Trustees of Women Connect First, an organisation that synergises with the Welsh Assembly Government to run projects for the empowerment of ethnic minority women in Wales. As chair of WCF trustees, she is responsible for good governance, HR related issues, financial regulations of the organisation and ensuring that the organisation operates within the expectation of the Charity Commission in Wales.
Beltha lives in Dallas, Texas in the United States and is a nurse by profession with over 15 years of experience working with geriatric patients, hospice patients, mentally challenged people and medically fragile children whose lives depend on medication. A mother and a grandmother, she is a passionate humanitarian, an advocate for gender equality and women empowerment who loves giving back to the community through empowering less privilege women and children especially in Africa. A foster mother with a loving heart for medical dependent children with a goal to reuniting the children with their family or give them a better quality of life in a more stable environment, Beltha’s passion for humanity to thrive is one to be reckoned with.
Mulilti a writer, poet, and storyteller. A member of Poets Unite Worldwide and published 22 anthologies with them. She has written many articles and poems for Ethiopian Herald and Poem Hunters, designs leather bags and jewellery, participates in many volunteer groups, contributor for Asian Press Institute and now she is an investor in the United Arab Emirates. She has worked for many NGOs advocating for gender equality and women empowerment. Muliti uses her story telling and writing skills to be the voice for many underprivileged women and girls in Ethiopia. She a seasoned networked guru and operates on many platforms connecting women to organisations that can give them they support that the need.
