Speaker Listing 3

Courteney Mukoyi has more than three years of experience in civic technology. Courteney is founder and director of the Justice Code Foundation, an organization that focuses on using technology for civic good.

Tiseke has over two decades of work in the human rights, democracy, and governance field. She joined Freedom House as chief of party in 2019 to lead the Advancing Rights in Southern Africa program, the largest multicountry program in Freedom House’s Africa portfolio.

Co-founder and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab, and a co-founder of the independent media Hromadske.

Daniele is a social worker, specializing in Social Assistance and Human Rights. She graduated from PUC-Rio, where, today, she is also pursuing a master’s degree in Social Work.

A highly skilled, competent and committed lawyer and human rights defender, Arnold Tsunga has professional experience that spans private and public practice in law, politics and public administration, international NGO leadership and management, and sports administration and management.

Lisa Sidambe is Nhimbe Trust’s Consultant Researcher and Advocacy Lead.

Adam Shapiro is the Deputy Director of Programs at Artists at Risk Connection. He most recently held the position of Director of Advocacy for Israel and Palestine at DAWN, a nonprofit organization that supports democracy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Mr. Fumba Chama, is a Zambian renowned artist, activist and poet. He has gained vast experience as an artist and an advocate for human rights. His work as an artist has left an enormous mark in the Zambian creative industry.

Lawyer, Zambia

Sam Brakarsh is the Africa Regional Representative for Artists at Risk Connection (ARC), coordinator of the AMANI: Africa Creative Defense Network, and co-chair of the upcoming PANAF Summit on Artistic Freedom. He is from Zimbabwe where he cofounded the Chikukwa Research Trust and Culture Centre, focusing on sustainable governance, political theatre, and environmental justice.

Deprose is the former Deputy Director of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA). Deprose has been a Senior Democracy and Governance Advisor at USAID, a programme manager for economic justice at the Zimbabwe Council of Churches, a founder member of the broad-based movement that campaigned for a new constitution in Zimbabwe, and a founder member of the Southern Africa Economic Justice Network. He is also editor of the book Tearing Us Apart: Inequalities in Southern Africa.

Abigail has worked at OHCHR for more than 20 years in various capacities. Before her current posting, she oversaw OHCHR’s work from headquarters in east and southern Africa and the African Union and undertook special assignments in Sierra Leone and Nigeria.