Omar Elmawi is the current coordinator of the deCOALonize Campaign and the Stop EACOP Campaign. 

At deCOALonide, he leads a team of community partners, organizations, and staff to push for a green and sustainable energy future for Kenya. 

At the Stop EACOP campaign, he works with myriad other organizations and individuals from Tanzania, Uganda, and the rest of the world to push for the protection of sensitive Ecosystems, human rights and addressing climate change concerns.

He described himself as a highly motivated lawyer with over 7 years of experience assisting communities in asserting their rights and having their voices heard in development projects coming to their doorsteps.

He is knowledgeable on energy, climate change, and environmental laws and has dedicated his career to supporting marginalized communities to safeguard and enforce their rights.

Over the past 8 years, he has worked and partnered with renowned organizations, including Katiba Institute, 350, Save Lamu, Natural Resources Alliance of Kenya, and Natural Justice.

Executive Director of ‘Siasa Place’ – which is a youth organization established in 2015, dedicated to collaboratively create an environment that enables the youth of Kenya to directly engage with the political mainstream in a meaningful way. Siasa Place educates youth on electoral processes, constitution, government institutions, and functions. SP currently works in 10 counties. She attained her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Sociology from Jacksonville State University in 2010 and her Master’s in Public Administration in 2012.  Nerima is also a columnist with ‘The East African’ and 2018 Obama Leaders Fellow.

Florence Odiwuor describes herself as passionate about education, youth, leadership, community service, and social change.

 She is the National Coordinator for Kenya Unites, which is part of Sri Lanka-based Global Unites. She happens to be its youngest National Director!

After graduating college, Florence immediately began work as the National Coordinator. For two years, she has been supporting networking and partnership development, fundraising strategies, contributing content for Kenya Unites' social media accounts, and mentoring schools going youth. 

Florence and her team have worked directly with more than 5000 students, and 200 teachers across 26 counties, teaching on peacebuilding, conflict transformation, reconciliation, and mental health

Muthoni Maingi is an award-winning Global Digital Strategist and currently the Head of Digital Campaigns at Oxfam International. At Oxfam she leads global work, working collaboratively across the 90-country confederation on projects that use digital technology to influence and leverage the power of people to end poverty. 

Using the mobile, web, and social media to drive, support, and connect the actions, donations, and offline participation of millions of people.

In her past life, she was the Digital Manager overseeing the Enterprise and Consumer Business Unit at Safaricom (one of sub-Saharan Africa’s most valuable brands). In this role, she was part of the core team that launched two new brands -Little Ride a cab-hailing app, and BLAZE a youth telecommunications network. 

BLAZE was recognized as digital excellence, case study on Think with Google and won the Relationship Brand category at the African Excellence Awards. 

A Governance Expert that seeks to work with Countries, leaders, and organizations to tackle humanity’s toughest and wicked problems. Nancy is a crisis leader who seeks to develop solutions to Africa’s complex problems. Working across different generations through people-to-people connections and the use of research, her expertise lies in Futures scenarios and Foresight, research, strategic advisory, policy formation, Monitoring Evaluation, Learning, and project design.

Mulah - Prosper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKyFL_1-oek

Suzanne Silantoi is a public policy analyst, who has just recently graduated from the University of York with a Master of Arts in Public Administration and Public Policy. Suzanne was the youngest Nairobi senatorial candidate in 2017 at the age of 23. 

Suzanne was a nominee of the International Association of Political Consultants Democracy Award 2017 alongside David Maraga, Chief Justice and President Supreme Court of Kenya, and Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Turkey’s opposition leader.  (https://www.iapc.org/nominees;   https://iapc.org/nominee/suzanne-silantoi-lengewa).

Suzanne has over 5 years of experience in the health development space. Currently, she is running a podcast and YouTube channel known as ‘Is that so? With Silantoi’. The aim of this channel is to help us understand our role in governance and help raise a politically empowered generation.

Silantoi"s Youtube Page

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU0QUi8gxCLCTExEAF2ik_g

Carine Umutoniwase is the Founder and Executive Director of Footprints for Change, which is an organization that thematically focuses on Leadership and Governance, Youth Engagement, Peacebuilding, and Research & Advocacy. F4C has six programs that cut across and focus on developing peace cultures and nurturing accountable leadership and constructive youth civic engagement. 

The target audience and beneficiaries are young people between the ages of 10 – 25 years and use a variety of means, including in school and out of school forums, sports, arts, comic books, social media, and photography, to engage these young people and message our program objectives. The organization’s vision is ‘Build authentic and accountable youth-led grassroots engagement’ and its mission is ‘Provide mentorship platforms and programs to awaken potential and strengthen capacity for peacebuilding and sustainable development.