Lucy Wanjiku Njenga is a dynamic young leader who prides herself in creating an enabling environment for other young leaders to thrive. She has worked in the HIV responses for ten years with experience in establishing feminist movements as well as agitating for gender equality from the grassroot level to global level. She is the Founding Coordinator of Sauti Skika, the first network of adolescents living with HIV in Kenya and the Founder and Executive Director of Positive Young Women Voices, a grassroot community-based organization that works to empower adolescent girls and young women living with or affected by HIV.

She serves as the Alternate Board Member in the Country Coordinating Mechanism to the Global Fund and a former African Delegate to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board. She is currently a HER Voice Fund Ambassador Angel to three powerhouse Ambassadors.

Patricia Humura is a Human Rights Practitioner, Bioethicist, and Health Rights advocate with proven work experience in strategic-based policy advocacy for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and ending HIV and AIDS. She is a Vice-Chairperson of the Adolescents and Youth Sub Community Advisory Board (CAB) at Baylor College of Medicine and Children's Foundation. She is the Inside My Purse Campaign Ambassador representing Uganda, and a Youth Advisor for the Vibrant Young Voices Consortium, a consortium of four organizations; The Global Network of young people living with HIV (Y+ Global), The Coalition for Children Affected by AIDS (CCABA), Paediatrics AIDS Treatment for Africa (PATA), and the Adolescent HIV Treatment Coalition (ATC)

She has served as a Youth Representative at the Uganda Country Coordinating Mechanism of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. She has represented Uganda at the Women4Global Fund and previously worked as a Programme Associate at a Feminist Pan African Regional Organisation “Akina Mama wa Afrika”.She is pursuing a Master of Health Science in Bioethics at Makerere University and currently, she works with Irise Institute East Africa as a Programme Manager and Lead Advisor for Period Equity Africa.

Brenda Formin is a Non-profit Consultant, a Feminist & Social Entrepreneur. She provides technical support to donor organizations with respect to their participatory grant making process by conducting outreach, screening applications, reviewing final results, supporting with due diligence as well as supporting grantee partner capacity strengthening. In this same light, she also offers technical support to grassroot organizations in project design and implementation, field operations, needs assessment with specific interests in women’s economic empowerment, women’s health and rights, education, gender equality and the promotion of sexual reproductive health rights. She is an advisor at FRIDA, The Young Feminist Fund, which provides resources to young feminist organizers. She believes in a gender-equal world where girls and women can live in safety and equality.

Her work in the past 7 years and counting focuses on identifying resources that sustain the empowerment of individuals and communities, while closing the resource distribution gap between the urban rich and rural poor, with a particular focus on adolescent girls and young women. She is a recipient of several awards including the MILEAD Award and is an Obama Foundation Leaders Africa Fellow. She continues to amplify the voices of AGYW at key global convenes & High Panel Ministerial Meetings.

Martine Laurette Moguem is a public health specialist, communications professional, and gender equality advocate with more than a decade of experience advancing community-driven health solutions across Africa. She has led multi-country programs in malaria elimination, sexual and reproductive health, youth engagement, and nature-based solutions, working closely with governments, civil society, and international partners.

Throughout her career, Martine has trained over 200 youth leaders, 300 health providers, and dozens of community-based organizations, while mobilizing religious and traditional leaders to champion inclusive health programming. She brings strong expertise in grant management, strategic communications, advocacy, and capacity building, effectively using media and community outreach to amplify program impact. Passionate about sustainable health financing and equity, she works at the intersection of policy, community leadership, and global health systems.

A gender and human rights activist advocating for engagement of AGYW in spaces where they shape HIV and primary Health care response, with experience working with a number of local community, regional and international organizations and agencies. Currently working with the National AIDS Commission (NAC) coordinating all the youth related interventions for multi-sectoral approach in the HIV response. Through the National AIDS Commission Youth Consortium (NACYC), I am currently overseeing a UNICEF supported youth leadership project that has mentors from diverse communities in the 10 districts of Lesotho. I also have worked with a community based organization called LENASO reaching communities with Primary health care, TB presumptive case referral, TB contact tracing and HIV prevention and treatment education, referrals and mobilization. I worked as the voice of the most vulnerable AGYW in different platforms; as the ATHENA focal point for Lesotho and mostly as the HER Voice AGYW Ambassador for the country. Part of my work is advocacy for girls and women centered policies and their engagement in decision making platforms as well as sharing information with the communities as part of empowerment. I also have experience working as a junior consultant alongside organizations such as PATA Africa and SAFAIDS leading AGYW consultations in GC7 processes, development of the “We are the Change” AGYW capacity building curriculum and gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) respectively. I also have worked as a peer educator and formed groups of AGYWs in different communities where some of the conversations emphasized on HIV prevention through combination prevention and economic empowerment. I have actively engaged in review and development of national documents like HIV and TB strategic plans and sustainability road map and have been part of the TB women academy to advocate for integration of gender and TB in other prioritized health issues to minimize TB mortality rate in Lesotho.

Olerato Keegope strongly believes in active citizenship and meaningful youth engagement as key components for sustainable development. She has been an active member of civil society since 2013 and her experience carries a special interest of meaningful participation youth in Botswana’s Health (HIV/SRH) & Social response, policy reform & implementation. Olerato has contributed immensely to various global, regional and national advocacy agendas in relation to programme development, implementation and review, she works to facilitate platforms that encourage participation and engagement of young people who are usually left behind.

Olerato is currently the Senior Advocacy & Communications Officer at Sentebale in Botswana where she coordinates “Let Youth Lead – a programme that provides young people with a platform to voice the challenges and propose solutions through engaging with relevant policymakers and stakeholders”. She is also a Youth Representative on Botswana’s Country Coordinating Mechanism – where she accelerates the participation of young people, especially adolescent girls & young women, in Global Fund processes.