Carol Wabomba Ssenfuka

Caroline Wabomba Ssenfuka is the ICT Manager at Raising Voices. She is an Engineer and IT professional holding a Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering, a Diploma in Information Technology and a CCNA certification. She is a humble, lively, and energetic techie who loves bringing a smile to peers. She believes women can excel in technology fields and that’s why she embraces technology as one of her hobbies and sails in it with a lot of passion. She handles and operates machines and computers like toys. Besides her tech world, she lives a life of God ahead of everything she does. She loves people and talks with a smile. Carol loves children and no one can harm a child in front of her. Before joining Raising Voices, Carol was working in the telecommunications industry where she maintained and managed hybrid and alarm systems for Airtel, MTN and Africell Masts for a period of ten years.

Dennis Okello

Dennis Okello is also known as “Orlando” at Raising Voices where he works as a Technical Advisor with the Learning Team. He inspires leadership and jointly coordinates the implementation of Raising Voices’ Learning Strategy. Dennis holds a Post Graduate Diploma in M&E from Uganda Management Institute, a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Statistics from Kyambogo University and has earned a variety of MEAL certificates. Dennis has extensive experience on M&E for violence against women prevention programming including roles as National Project Coordinator for the Sustainability of GBV Shelters for Effective Prevention and Response to GBV in Uganda funded by the UN Agencies, as  the M&E Coordinator & Technical Programme Coordinator on the Support to Uganda’s Response to Gender Equality (SURGE) Programme, and as a M&E Officer for GBV shelters at ActionAid International Uganda. Dennis is a personality development trainer and loves bringing out the best in people and teams. He has great passion for swimming and music and he plays guitar and the keyboard. He is fun to be around, loves making jokes and brings fun and laughter to everything he does.

Guillermo Salazar

Guillermo Salazar is a consultant for the SASA! Cohort in Mexico. He is from Guatemala, a small country located in Central America; a green corner, full of parrots, handicrafts and volcanoes. As a member of the SASA! team he provides training and technical support to indigenous groups working on violence prevention in their communities.  Previously, Guillermo worked for many years looking for children lost during the war in Guatemala and supporting their families. He has also worked accompanying men who use violence. Guillermo enjoys playing guitar and singing with his daughter. She studies music and being with her is full of beautiful moments.  Guillermo is very motivated to share experiences and enjoys facilitating processes in which people grow and are happier. As a good listener, Guillermo enjoys hearing other's stories and sharing his own – he believes that life in community with others is lighter and more beautiful.

Hedwig Tushemerirwe

Hedwig Tushemerirwe is known for her hard work, honesty, and commitment. At the office, Hedwig works with the Finance Department as a Finance Officer. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration. She has previously worked with Exclusive Organic Ltd and National Organic Agricultural Movement of Uganda. Hedwig is a good listener and believes everyone can learn if given a chance. She is the mother of four angels that hold the light looking onward. Hedwig found her long-term home when joining the Raising Voices family.

Leah Goldmann

Leah was known around the office for talking about and/or showing you pictures of her cat. She supports the VAW prevention team at Raising Voices, supporting national, regional and global advocacy initiatives to strengthen feminist-informed policy and programming on violence against women prevention. Additionally, she is a doctoral student in Gender Studies at Arizona State University.  Previously, she worked for the Ugandan Ministry of Health, developing policies, guidelines and curricula to strengthen the health sector’s foundation in rights-based and gender-transformative approaches. Leah received her master of public administration degree from Columbia University in New York. She’s a co-founder of the Society of Gender Professionals and on the Coordinating Committee for COFEM. She’s inspired by international feminist initiatives seeking to dismantle the patriarchy and is always ready to join a new book club.

Milly Nalutaaya

Milly is calm, composed but persistent and resilient! As the Administration Officer at Raising Voices, she works with everyone in the organization and stakeholders directly or indirectly to provide support services in and out of season. Milly holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Quantitative Economics Degree from Makerere University’s School of Statistics. She is proud to be working with Raising Voices because of the values Raising Voices upholds.

Ronald Kafuuma

Ronald Kafuuma works as an Office Assistant at Raising Voices. Prior to joining Raising Voices, he worked at ABSA Bank in the same capacity. Ronald is kind and fun to work with. He enjoys his work and his so proud to be associated with Raising Voices. He is married and his family is a great motivation for working hard. Ronald enjoys sports and dancing outside his work.

Sophie Namy

Sophie loves connecting with people and having long conversations—especially when they provide new insights that help her make better sense of life! She considers herself a feminist researcher and practitioner—and has been working to prevent violence against women for over 14 years. Previously, she was the learning coordinator at Raising Voices, and Sophie continues to support the team as a technical advisor. She is also the founder and co-director of Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT), an organization dedicated to a future where women and girls can access spaces for collective trauma healing through integrated mind-body practices.

Yvette Alal

Yvette Alal is a member of the violence against women prevention team at Raising Voices. Her role is to support partner organizations using SASA! Together to prevent violence against women. Yvette has over 15 years’ experience of using social norms change approaches to prevent violence against women with a special expertise in working with government institutions such as the Uganda Police Force, the Office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution, and the Ministry of Health to develop and implement systems and protocols for preventing and responding to violence against women. Yvette has been actively involved in the development and implementation of SASA! and SASA! Together over the last decade. She graduated from Makerere University and lives and works in Kampala, Uganda.

Aidan Eyakuze

Aidan Eyakuze, an economist, is Executive Director of Twaweza East Africa. Twaweza works to enable children to learn, citizens to exercise agency and governments to be more open and accountable in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. In 2016, Aidan was appointed to the global Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) where he served for 7 years including as Civil Society Co-Chair jointly with the Government of Italy. He serves on the global boards of the OGP, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) and the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP). Aidan was named as one of the “World’s 50 Most Influential People Revolutionising Government” by Apolitical and the World Economic Forum in 2020. Aidan is an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN). Twitter/X: @aeyakuze LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidan-eyakuze-5409a217/

Dipak Naker

Dipak is a co-founder  at Raising Voices, where he spends his days asking challenging questions about how to prevent violence against children, bringing answers to those questions to life and supporting a team of hardworking staff. He has designed an award-winning communication campaign that reaches approximately 2 million Ugandans a month and developed an evidence-based methodology for preventing violence against children in schools that is currently being rolled out in 1,000 Ugandan schools. He has written many substantive pieces on preventing violence and serves on the boards of a number of dynamic organizations. Dipak was born in Tanzania and has lived in East Africa for most of his life.

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Lori Michau

Lori Michau is an activist committed to preventing violence against women (VAW). She is a co-founder of Raising Voices, a feminist non-profit organization in Kampala, Uganda working to prevent violence against women and children. Lori has over 25 years of leadership and management experience including co-directing Raising Voices from 1999 – 2022, where she is now on the Board of Directors. Lori is a skilled innovator, having also co-founded several vibrant organizations and networks: the Jijenge Women’s Center for Sexual Health in Mwanza, Tanzania; the Center for Domestic Violence Prevention in Kampala, Uganda; the GBV Prevention Network across the Horn, East and Southern Africa; and the global Community for Understanding Scale Processes (CUSP). Lori also developed various VAW prevention and movement building methodologies including the SASA! approach for preventing violence against women, one of the few approaches globally with that has achieved community-level impact on preventing intimate partner violence against women, which is being used in over 60 countries around the world. Lori has published numerous articles on violence prevention and specializes in popularizing complex ideas for activist communities, having led communication campaigns and initiatives across the Horn, East and Southern Africa. She has extensive experience in community mobilization and in mentoring young feminists and feminist organizations. Lori is committed to supporting the broader field of VAW prevention through her participation in various Boards and Advisory Groups and she draws on her decades of practice-based learning and expertise to advise funders, organizations and institutions on quality VAW prevention programming, funding and strategy. She received her Master’s Degree in Human Rights from Makerere University and is currently based in Boston.