Naomi Tulay-Solanke is a dedicated feminist, human rights activist, and humanitarian. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Community Healthcare Initiative (CHI), a grassroots NGO committed to delivering healthcare and social services to women and children in Liberia’s most underserved communities. Naomi has devoted her career to empowering underprivileged youths and residents of slum areas, focusing on women and girls.

Holding a Master’s Degree in Public Health with a specialization in Community Health, Naomi’s academic background underpins her practical work in sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR).

Naomi’s role as a social entrepreneur is exemplified by her leadership in the PAD4GIRLS project, an innovative initiative to address menstrual health challenges. By training local women to produce reusable sanitary pads, the project ensures that these essential products are available and accessible to school-age girls, promoting their retention in school during their menstrual periods.

As the founding chair of the Amplifying Rights Network in Liberia, Naomi hosted the country’s first holistic SRHR conference. A strong advocate of the revised Public Health Law, she currently represents IPPF in Liberia, working on access to safe and legal abortion and increasing the uptake of contraceptives.

Driven by a powerful vision of a world free from all forms of violence, with gender equity and peace, Naomi Tulay-Solanke continues to inspire and lead efforts toward creating a more just and equitable society.

Kerigo Odada is a lawyer, researcher, and human rights advocate focusing on the right to health, particularly sexual and reproductive health and rights. She holds a bachelor of laws degree from the University of Nairobi and a Master’s in Law in sexual and reproductive rights from the University of Pretoria. Kerigo is currently an LLD candidate at the Centre Human for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, where research focuses on obstetric violence and the legal mobilisation for respectful maternity care. Beyond her academic research, Kerigo provides research support to Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, coordinates the legal support network for MAMA Network, which works with activists across Africa on access to medical abortion and serves as a mentor for the Global Surgery Advocacy Fellowship by Operation Smile, Nkafu Policy Institute and the University of Global Health Equity. Over the years, Kerigo has worked as a consultant on various advocacy, research, and academic projects on reproductive justice, gender equality, violence against women and girls, and meaningful youth engagement. She is passionate about health equity and strengthening health system governance through co-creation, co-leadership and co-ownership with all relevant stakeholders, especially the youth.

Isabel Rubio is a Mexican-trained lawyer with broad experience on gender equality, sexual and reproductive rights and health, and human rights. She has worked as an attorney, researcher and advocate in Mexico and the US, in NGOs, think tanks and public institutions, leading pro bono litigation, as a law clerk and training judges and judicial officers on judging from a gender perspective in cases related to GBV.

Satang Nabaneh, PhD is an award-winning interdisciplinary scholar, educator, researcher, and human rights practitioner. She is the Director of Programs and Research Professor of Law at the University of Dayton Human Rights Center. Her research encompasses global human rights architecture, gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, democratization, and autocratization. She  is affiliated faculty in the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria and a Global Fellow at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the University of Bergen (UiB)’s Centre on Law and Social Transformation She is also a member of the Panel of Experts of the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA). Satang served as the Legal Adviser to the African Union’s Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa.  In The Gambia, Satang co-founded Think Young Women (TYW), which empowers young women through education and advocacy and and is the Co-convener of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights Network (SRRNet).
 
Satang is the author of ‘Choice and Conscience: Lessons from South Africa for a Global Debate’ (PULP, 2023) and co-edited ‘The Gambia in Transition: Towards a New Constitutional Order’ (PULP, 2022) and ‘Sexual Harassment, Law and Human Rights in Africa’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). Her forthcoming edited volume is Female Genital Mutilation in Africa: Politics of Criminalization’ (PULP, 2024).
 
Satang has been featured in prominent media outlets, including The New York Times, Reuters, Time, and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Think Global Health. The Africa Report named her one of 10 exceptionally talented African scholars to watch in 2024.

Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng obtained her medical degree (MBChB) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban and now runs a women’s health clinic, DISA, in Johannesburg. At its forty-fourth session in July 2020, the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Ms. Tlaleng Mofokeng, from South Africa, as Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.

She is a thought leader and contributor to 5FM and Metro FM’s Sexual Health radio features, the ‘Let’s Talk About Sex’ columnist for the Sunday Times, and is internationally published in The Guardian, Teen Vogue and Project Syndicate. Dr T says that the field of sexual and reproductive health chose her during her community service year when she worked in the West Rand clinics in Johannesburg. Most of her patients were young women and, in true Dr T style, affirming of sexual pleasure, she made them feel comfortable to share their sexual health and relationship concerns. This ignited the spark in Dr T to pursue a career advocating for and defending sexual and reproductive rights and health for women and children. Her areas of interest are Public Health Policy, Advocacy, Global Health Politics and health content production. She sits on a Global Advisory Board for Sexual Health and Wellbeing (GAB-SHW), Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT).