Change Voices

In this fifth episode of season two, we're in conversation with public relations consultant, public speaker and WomeninTechZA co-founder Samantha Perry. Through the work of WomeninTechZA, Perry aims to bridge the gender diversity gap in the tech sector.

Working both as a journalist and PR professional in a consultancy and full-time capacity over the past 20 years, Perry has covered the ICT sector for the likes of Computing SA (editor), ComputerWeek, and Brainstorm magazine (editor). In her capacity as a PR professional and consultant, she has worked with listed and multinational organisations such as Striata, Google, Telkom, MTN and Dimension Data.

She currently serves as the Johannesburg Agency Lead for public relations and integrated marketing agency Irvine Partners.

We’d love to hear from you, tweet us @changevoices, find us on Instagram, connect with us on LinkedIn, and visit our website frayintermedia.com.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavor, please contact Paula directly at [email protected] or direct message her on social media.

In this fourth episode of season two, were in conversation with Gabriella Razanno, founder of OpenUp, a civic tech lab based in Cape Town. Razzano is a researcher and legal consultant on issues of transparency, open data, technology and law. She has contributed to the drafting of regional instruments (such as the African model law on access to information, the African declaration on internet rights and freedoms), and is drafting the SADC model law on the digital economy.

We’d love to hear from you, tweet us @changevoices, find us on Instagram, connect with us on LinkedIn, and visit our website frayintermedia.com.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at [email protected] or direct message her on social media.

Change Voices is a production of frayintermedia

Produced by Zoe Naledi Neocosmos

Social Media and Graphics by Aphiwe Kunene

Editing by Desmond Latham and Zoe Naledi Neocosmos

In this third episode of the Change Voices series, host Paula Fray is in conversation with Congolese-born Huguette Diakabana, a global health practitioner whose expertise considers the practice of connecting people to life-saving technologies.

Diakabana is Co-Founder of the African Alliance of Digital Health Networks. She has deployed technology-based solutions in education, community development, and global health in over 20 countries throughout Africa. She currently works with organizations and governments to leverage data to enhance the quality of health services. She is also a New Voices Fellow with the Aspen Institute and Co-Chair of the WHO Digital Health Technical Advisory Group.

We’d love to hear from you, tweet us @changevoices, find us on Instagram, connect with us on LinkedIn, and visit our website frayintermedia.com.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at [email protected] or direct message her on social media.

Our Change Voices guest this week is Dr Zamambo Mkhize, a lecturer in Gender Studies at the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. Having undertaken her Honours in Criminology and Master’s in Gender Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Zamambo also completed her PhD in Pennsylvania as a Fulbright scholar.

Author of “Polygyny and Gender” published in September 2021, her research focus includes African women in high-stakes degrees such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Zamambo founded the African STEMinist foundation which is dedicated to supporting, mentoring and advancing African women in STEM fields.

We’d love to hear from you, tweet us @changevoices, find us on Instagram, connect with us on LinkedIn, and visit our website frayintermedia.com.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at [email protected] or direct message her on social media.

Change Voices is a production of frayintermedia

Produced by Zoe Naledi Neocosmos

Social Media and Graphics by Aphiwe Kunene

Editing by Desmond Latham and Zoe Naledi Neocosmos

Today is the launch of season 2! Our first guest is Chenai Chair, the Special Advisor on Africa Mradi Innovation at Mozilla Foundation. She is an expert on the intersection of digital technology and gender and currently supports the implementation of Common Voice African languages work by Mozilla - an open-source data set to support voices in technology intervention.

In this episode, we explore digital technology and the gender divide, privacy and intersectional feminism as well as what needs to be done in terms of policy in order to uphold digital rights.

We’d love to hear from you, tweet at us @changevoices, find us on Instagram, connect with us on LinkedIn, and visit our website frayintermedia.com.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at [email protected] or direct message her on social media.

Host Paula Fray is still in Kampala, Uganda, and this week she is speaking about supporting transformational leadership with Rita Atukwasa.

Rita is executive director of the institute for social transformation where she led a transformative leadership process with Uganda’s market women. Rita has extensive experience with public policy analysis, gender budgeting, mainstreaming, legislative analysis and drafting amongst others.

We explored how her organisation helped market women develop an

APP though the process of transformational leadership.

Our Change Voices guest this week is the award-winning Agnes Igoye who is Uganda’s deputy national coordinator for the prevention of trafficking in persons and heads up Uganda’s Immigration Training Academy. She is also a 2018 Aspen New Voices Fellow.

Agnes escaped human traffickers at age 14 when the Lord’s Resistance Army raided her village. Since then, she’s built a centre for human-trafficking survivors, trained over 2,000 law enforcement officials to counter human trafficking, and fundraised for and delivered almost 100 000 textbooks to educate vulnerable children.

Not surprisingly, she has been named as one of New African Magazine’s 100 most influential Africans and is the winner of the 2016 Diane von Furstenberg International Award, University of Minnesota’s Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals, and she made the 2017 Clinton Global Initiative University Alumni Honour Roll.

She met our host, Paula Fray in Kampala and spoke about challenging cultural perceptions and the influence of her father in bringing up feminist daughters. She also shares her story about the Lord’s Resistance Army, human trafficking and how she got inspired to build a rehabilitation centre for women survivors of human trafficking.

Please be warned, some of these issues might be difficult to listen to.

You can find more information about the work we do and the Change Voices podcast on our website, frayintermedia.com, or on our social media platforms @frayintermedia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, where our frayintermedia teams involved in the production of this podcast post regular updates and share the lessons as we go along.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at [email protected] or direct message her on social media.

Host Paula Fray is in Uganda chatting to Penelope Sanyu, Chief Steward at Femme Forte, about breaking the mould in order to be a catalyst for change.

A lawyer by training, Penelope is a young thinker, writer and author, who describes herself as an Agent of Positive Social Change and Transformation.

She has dedicated most of her career building the capacity of young people to innovatively engage with and influence public policy in various spaces.

This week our Change Voices host Paula Fray is in Uganda where she is speaking to CivSource CEO Jacqueline Asiimwe-Mwesige about giving in Africa.

Jacqueline oversees an independent advisory firm that is committed to nurturing a more sustainable, effective and connected civil society through accountable philanthropic practice.

She is a Ugandan and USA trained lawyer with a successful record of accomplishments in leadership, management, law and policy formulation, as well as advocacy and training.

Jacqueline’s vision of philanthropy goes beyond money and is a call to action for every leader to engage their teams in the process of giving.

You can find more information about the work we do and the @changevoices podcast on our website, frayintermedia.com or on our social media platforms @frayintermedia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, where our frayintermedia teams involved in the production of this podcast will be posting regular updates and sharing the lessons as we go along.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at [email protected] or direct message her on social media.

In this week's episode of Change Voices, the CEO of frayintermedia, Paula Fray, talks to coach, mentor and trainer Shireen Motara about how organisations can ensure strong boards for good governance.

Previous episodes have explored personal strength and confidence, and how to strengthen the movements and organisations we belong to.

Shireen works with women leaders who seek to influence decisions at the highest levels of society, business and community. She has more than two decades’ experience in the non-profit sector as an advisor, researcher, manager, executive director, board member and consultant.

Beyond the fiduciary responsibilities that board members hold, this conversation has highlighted the critical of boards in sustaining organisations.

You can find more information about the work we do and the @changevoices podcast on our website, frayintermedia.com or on our social media platforms @frayintermedia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, where our frayintermedia teams involved in the production of this podcast will be posting regular updates and sharing the lessons as we go along.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at [email protected] or direct message her on social media.