Grace Mageka

Grace Sabiri Mageka is the founder and the Executive Director of Sisterhood for Change and Empowerment Center. She is a trained governance practitioner, human rights peer educator and Gender Equality advocate. Grace has been working on gender equality and women empowerment through grassroots activism, advocacy, research, capacity building and mentoring young human rights activists. She is the current Youth Power Global Youth Leader, a 2015 a Generation Change Fellow, 2015 Mandela Institute of Development Studies Alumnus and a 2016 Queen Young Leader. Grace is an international youth adviser, she has represented both youth and women constituencies in various platforms at the United Nations, African Union and European Union. Her passions lie in focusing on building movements of marginalized youths and poor rural women. She has confronted the challenges of political leadership and accountability through showcasing the role of youth and women as drivers of change to a broad spectrum of the African stakeholders groups.