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Nancy Kisangau
Nairobi
Kenya
Nancy Kisangau
Nancy Kisangau is a fourth year student at Kenyatta University pursuing a Bachelor degree in Law. Prior to this, she worked in the Kenya National Human Rights Commission as an attaché in the Reforms and accountability department. She has also worked in the government sector as an intern in the National Housing Corporation, a state parastatal committed to effectuating housing rights for Kenyan citizens.
Nairobi
Kenya
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
United States
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
United States
After graduating with a BA in Economics and English, Amanda worked for the Chilean Ministry of Education as an English teacher in Chile. While there, she volunteered for an urban development NGO that was carrying out 24 community projects and helped draft Frutillar, Chile’s successful application to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. During her career, she has worked with international youth on educational programs sponsored by the British Council and the U.S. Department of State. She is a former White House intern and an incoming Fulbright Scholar.
Felix Mmeka
Port Harcourt
Nigeria
Felix Mmeka
Port Harcourt
Nigeria
Felix is currently a National Youth Service Corp member serving his country, Nigeria at Ministry of Works, Uyo, Akwa Ibom. He graduated from Swansea University, with a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 2014 and went on to complete a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering in 2017. Felix developed a strong devotion to Youth Empowerment and giving back to his Community during his time at Swansea University from various leadership roles e.g. Sports Officer and Trustee of Swansea University Students’ Union, Treasurer of 2 societies etc. These experiences gave him an appreciation of how initiatives can significantly impact people’s lives.
Harun Momanyi
Nairobi
Kenya
Harun Momanyi
Nairobi
Kenya
Harun Momanyi is a youth empowerment expert, a socioeconomic development journalist and an entrepreneur. He is passionate about the SDGs. Originally from Kenya, Harun currently works as the Head of Kenya with Reform Africa Group, a Pan-African organization focusing on creating solutions to help youth realize meaningful employment and tackle life challenges better. In 2014, he was finalist in the Haller Prize for Development Journalism, became and ambassador for the NUHA Foundation Global Blogging Prize in 2015, a Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 nominee in 2018 and was shortlisted for the BBC World News Service Komla Dumor Award in 2018.
Victor Musa
Abuja
Nigeria
Victor Musa
Abuja
Nigeria
Victor is an Engineer and a problem solver. He is passionate about education and poverty eradication. Victor currently works as Cofounder and facilitator of Tech the girl Child Africa (TGC) an outreach program that seeks to engage over 10,000 girl child, especially in Africa with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics).
Victor is also serving as Director of sales and marketing at Mingcart, a company he cofounded in 2016 to unify Africa through culture and traditions.
Victor has received a number of prestigious National Merit Scholarship awards for his dedication to education. He hopes see everyone educated someday.
Ezinne Uche
Lagos
Nigeria
Ezinne Uche
Ezinne is a youth passionate about issues pertaining to inclusive growth, sustainable development, climate change and the enormous transformations taking place in especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. She seeks to earn a doctorate degree in Development Economics and her career goal is to be a development economist in an international development organization.
Lagos
Nigeria
Prof. Ngozi Ifeoma Odiaka
Co-Director, Sustainable Development Solution Network, Nigeria
Prof. Mrs. Ngozi Ifeoma Odiaka is an agricultural scientist, academic leader, and sustainable development strategist with over 35 years of experience spanning agronomic research, academic governance, and climate-smart agriculture. She holds a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Seed Production and Plant Breeding in Horticulture from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and is a Fellow of the Horticultural Society of Nigeria (FHSN). She began her career as a Research Officer at the National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) before transitioning into academia, where she rose to the rank of full professor at Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi (formerly the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi).
Throughout her administrative career, Prof. Odiaka has served as Head of the Department of Crop Production, Director of the Seed Technology Centre, and a former Board Member of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development at JOSTUM. As Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Federal University Wukari, she established the university's Teaching and Research Farm and Crop Museum Farm. Beyond her university responsibilities, she serves as an External Assessor and Examiner for professorial candidates and postgraduate programs across Nigeria.
In national and international leadership, Prof. Odiaka currently serves as Country Director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Nigeria and Secretary to the Board of Trustees of the Association of Deans of Agriculture in Nigerian Universities (ADAN). Her previous leadership roles include State Team Leader for the USAID Feed the Future Post-Harvest Research Project, Council Member of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), and Secretary General of the Horticultural Society of Nigeria (HORTSON). Her contributions have been recognized through the ANWAD Merit Award (USA), the Women of Merit Gold Award, fellowships from the Netherlands Government and MASHAV (Israel), and research grants from Bioversity, CTA, and the Kirkhouse Trust (UK).
Her core areas of expertise include Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), seed physiology, horticultural resilience, post-harvest systems, and land management policy. Through her work, she provides strategic guidance on sustainable land-use systems, seed security, regenerative agronomy, and the scaling of research-driven agricultural solutions.
