CMMA 2021, HAMBURG
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SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES 

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​Larry Macaulay
​CONVENER 
Founder of the CMMA
Board Member at Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE)
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Amelie Deuflhard
CHIEF HOST 
 Theater Producer
 Artistic Director of 
Kampnagel 
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Senator,
Dr. Carsten Brosda
CHIEF GUEST
Senator & Minister for Culture and Media
Free & Hanseatic City of Hamburg
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 Prof. Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba
​GUEST OF HONOR 
Founder / Chairman
​PLO Lumumba Foundation
Advocate of the High Courts of Kenya, member Africa Justice Group (AJG).
PROFILE/BIO
Larry Macaulay
 
Larry has been active in the Community Media scene for the past 7 years, advocating for the rights of migrants and refugees inclusion in the media space.
As part of his social responsibility, he founded The Refugee Radio Network project in Hamburg Germany to enhance the voice of refugees and migrants in Europe. Under the Refugee Radio Network project, he has conducted numerous workshops and sensitization programs on the topic 'migrant and the media' across Europe and beyond. 
Larry has also created the conference on migration and media awareness(CMMA) a forum for media practitioners, journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists civil societies and people with or without flight and migration experience. Since 2020 Larry is a member of the Board of CMFE – Community Media Forum Europe.

Amelie Deuflhard

​Amelie Deuflhard is the Artistic Director of Kampnagel (Hamburg), Europe's largest production center for the performing arts. With EcoFavela Lampedusa Nord ,
she initiated a living and action space for refugees in 2014. The project has found its extension on Kampnagel in the meeting place Migrantpolitan.
Amelie Deuflhard was part of the board of four of Theater der Welt 2017 in Hamburg. She is the author and editor of numerous articles and publications such as Spielraum produce. Sophiensaele 1996 - 2006 (2006), People's Palace. Between Activism and Art (2006), or Acting in Art and Society. The art space as a space for refugees (2016) and regularly teaches at universities. For her work she was awarded the Caroline Neuber Prize in 2012 and the Insignia des Chevaliers des Arts et Lettres in 2013. In 2018 she also received the European Cultural Manager of the Year award.

Prof. Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba

​Prof. PLO Lumumba is the Founder of the PLO Lumumba Foundation and a consultant with
Lumumba and Lumumba Advocates, a member of the Africa Justice Group (AJG). He is an Advocate of
the High Courts of Kenya and Tanganyika and a certified mediator. He is a Fellow of the Institute of
Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya FCPS (K), a Fellow of the Kenya Institute of Management (FKIM) and Honorary Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (FAAS). He is the Chairman of Farafina Investment Group in Monrovia, Liberia and Economic Strategic Growth and Development Initiative for Africa based in Nigeria.

​He has authored several books on diverse subjects. With several speeches on diverse subjects delivered
in and outside Africa, Lumumba is recognized as one of the leading public speakers in Africa and the
African in Diaspora. He is the founder of several organizations including the PLO Lumumba Foundation, a charitable organization that has been in operation since 1990. He has also been twice recognized as one of the 100 most influential Africans.

He is an admirer of Patrice Lumumba and Thomas Sankara, the assassinated revolutionary leaders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burkina Faso, respectively. Lumumba has referred to and quoted them several times in his speeches. 

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​Martina Chapman
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
​National coordinator 
 Media Literacy Ireland
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Shawn Powers
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Chief Strategy Officer
​ U.S. Agency for Global Media
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Fathia Elaouni
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
President standing committee
​ Les Panafricaines & Senior Editor-in-Chief l’antenne de Radio2M Morocco
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Giacomo Zandonini 
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Freelance Journalist
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 & Researcher 

working at the intersection of migrations, human trafficking, European policies.
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Ajmal Sohai
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
National Security Analyst & Co-president 
Counter Narco-terrorism Alliance Germany
Co-Founder and active Member of the Afghan Liberal Party
PROFILE/BIO
Martina Chapman
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Martina Chapman is an independent consultant specializing in media literacy policy and strategy development, research and project management.
She is the national coordinator of Media Literacy Ireland and the Be Media Smart campaign on behalf of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.
Martina has worked with organisations such as the Council of Europe, the European Audiovisual Observatory, the European Platform of Regulatory Authorities, the European Broadcasting Union and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as a number of European regulatory bodies, Public Service Media and media institutes.
She has authored and co-authored numerous reports and policy documents relating to MIL topics including the Media Literacy for all. Supporting marginalised groups through community media paper and the Mapping of Media Literacy Practices and Action in EU 28.
As a member of the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on quality journalism in the digital age (MSI-JOQ) she was one of the two researchers and rapporteurs for the report Supporting quality journalism through media and information literacy
Martina is also an Associate of Wagner-Hatfiled and Prior to setting up as a MIL consultant, she was the BBC’s Editor for Media Literacy and she previously held the staff position of Media Literacy Policy Executive for Ofcom.

​Shawn Powers
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Shawn Powers serves as the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s (USAGM) Chief Strategy Officer, leading its interagency engagement, strategic planning, strategic initiatives, and partnerships with key international stakeholders. Previously Powers served as Executive Director of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. From 2016-2018 he led the Commission’s efforts to understand and utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities in the strategic communication space and helped forge a research and learning agenda and culture among public diplomacy practitioners. He has a Ph.D. from the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California (USC) and was a tenured professor at Georgia State University, where he wrote award-winning book, 
The Real Cyber War: A Political Economy of Internet Freedom (The University of Illinois Press, 2015). Powers has over 40 publications in academic and mainstream outlets, including The Washington Post, Guardian, and Huffington Post.

Fathia Elaouni

Graduated from CFJ (Training Center for Journalists) from Paris, Fathia Elaouni is committed in the media for almost thirty years.
After setting up her own radio station in France, she returned to Morocco to become a journalist at
Medi 1. Senior Editor-in-Chief in charge of all the antenna of Radio 2M, she hosts the show "Bring in the guest", during which it receives many political leaders and all those who are in the news in Morocco and
internationally.
Fathia Elaouni is also the president of the Standing Committee of Pan-African Women, the network of women journalists from Africa initiated by 2M.
This event brought together in 2020, 300 journalists of the 54 countries of the continent on the theme of climate.


Giacomo Zandonini

Giacomo is a Swiss-Italian journalist whose work explored mobility, identities and European policies in the Mediterranean and West Africa. He published for Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Mediapart, Deutsche Welle, The Correspondent, The New Humanitarian and other media outlets. He contributed to investigations highlighting human rights violations, surveillance programmes, corruption and diversion of public funds. He received a Migration Media Award in 2017 and a special mention at the Trues Story Award in 2019. He's a member of Fada Collective - 
www.fadacollective.com.

Ajmal Sohail

Born in Afghanistan, Ajmal Sohail has chosen an education for going into politics. Ajmal Sohail entered the political stage, worked his way up and became the economic advisor for the vice-presidency of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. He twice ran for the parliamentary elections, suffering a narrow defeat each time.

​Ajmal Sohail is an intelligence analyst and counter terrorism expert, and he frequently appears on national and international news outlets. He has written three books about liberalism and capitalism. In addition to his current duties, he is working towards democratic changes in Afghanistan. Over the decades, he has gathered a profound knowledge about the highly complex geopolitical situation in the Greater Middle East and the situation of Afghanistan. He benefits from his neutral view in its core but allows himself a critical eye towards the involved parties, their actions and the whole situation in this area. Due to his neutral position, he can keep valuable contacts into all these countries. 

Furthermore, Ajmal is currently chairperson of Afghanistan Republican Salvation Front (ARSF) and  Co-Founder and Co-President of the Counter Narco-Terrorism Alliance Germany; Co-Founder and active Member of the Afghan Liberal Party; Director General of the Centre for Strategic Research-Diplomacy Afghanistan; Director General of the Institute for Counter Terrorism Studies; Director Strategic Research, Intelligence, and Counter-Terrorism Solutions.
He has a comprehensive experience in analysis in politics, conflicts and intelligence, counter terrorism and counter insurgency, multilateral diplomacy, national and international politics, national security and studies in security, democracy, peace development, geopolitics, NGO, crisis management and more.
He has received two academic diplomas for practitioners in Changing the Global Order and in Terrorism and counterterrorism: Theory and Practice from Leiden University of the Netherlands, in addition, he also has a college degree in both Macroeconomics and Microeconomics, foreign trades and report writing from Comcave College Germany.
Enjoy your journey through his analyses on a number of outlets such as TV, radio, news sites and dedicated web sites: www.ajmalsohail.com as well as the additional information given on this web site.

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Birgitte Jallov
​​​SESSION CHAIR 
President
Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE)
​Denmark
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Nadia Bellardi
​SESSION CHAIR 
Media consultant,  Transcultural consulting,
Expert Group of
​Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE)  Switzerland
  
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​Nadine Jessen
​SESSION CHAIR
Co-Founder
New Media Socialism
Dramaturg / Curator 
Kampnagel 
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Alexandre Brutelle
SESSION CHAIR ​
  Director and Co-Founder at the Environmental Investigative Forum [EIF], Investigative Journalism Project Coordinator at CiFAR.
Profile/Bio

Birgitte Jallov

Birgitte is the President of Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE) and the founder of EMPOWERHOUSE. A life-long advocate of people’s right to found, define, manage, own and fill their own media, Birgitte has since the early 80s been active in and around community media as a broadcaster, a manager, a midwife, a trainer, a donor, an advocate, an evaluator and an activist in many countries in especially Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. A co-founder of Denmark’s first women’s radio, Birgitte never misses an opportunity to support activities to strengthen women in the media and other public stages. Birgitte holds an MA in Communication.

Nadia Bellardi

Nadia works as transcultural media consultant to advance public discourse around migration, inclusion, diversity, Islam and gender issues. As independent expert for the Council of Europe, OSCE and UNESCO she is exploring the impact of technology on journalism and freedom of expression. Since 2018 Nadia is member of the Board of the Swiss Foundation for Radio and Culture SRKS/FSRC. She was Vice President of Community Media Forum Europe from 2008 to 2015 and in the management team of Radio LoRa from 2005 to 2010. She holds a MA Degree with full honours in Political Science from Università Cattolica, Milan and a post-graduate MA Degree in Cultural Mediation from Venice University.

​Alexandre Brutelle

Alexandre is a freelance investigative journalist and trainer. He is currently a Lead Coordinator at the Environmental Investigative Forum since 2019 and has been an Investigative Program Coordinator for the NGO CiFAR, specialized in Asset Recovery, since 2018.
He has been awarded 4 grants by the Journalism Fund as a team manager since 2018, for cross-border stories in Ghana, Tunisia and Bulgaria, on various environmental issues.
He is also a manager of the Politics Watch criminal database project, in France, since 2017. He started his career as a foreign report in Ukraine and Turkey, from 2014 to 2017.

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​Susanne Bellinghausen
SPEAKER
CEO r0g_agency for open culture & critical transformation, Berlin Germany
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Giulia Dessì
SPEAKER
Project Manager, Media Diversity Institute, UK
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Ugochi Anyaka Oluigbo
SPEAKER
African Environmental Journalist &
​Film Maker
Creator GreenAngleTv
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Gideon Sarpong
SPEAKER
Co-founder/ Head of Policy & News, iWatch Africa, Ghana
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Kristof Horvath
SPEAKER
Co-founder & Assistant
​coordinator at Environmental Investigative Forum [EIF]
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France
PROFILE/BIO
Susanne Bellinghausen
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Susanne Bellinghausen is an architect and co-founder of the r0g_agency, a Berlin-based nonprofit
that works with local organizations to support open knowledge, open technology, and peacebuilding
efforts in the Global South. While running the #defyhatenow project in South Sudan and Uganda
(www.defyhatenow.org), she focused on mitigating online hate speech and misinformation. She is
now the project manager for #MMN – the Migrant Media Network (https://migrantmedia.network/),
which aims to prove reliable information on migration, raise awareness of safer migration options,
and foster social media skills.

Giulia Dessì

Giulia Dessì is a project manager at the Media Diversity Institute, a charity that works internationally to encourage accurate and nuanced reporting on issues of diversity. She currently coordinates the project Get the Trolls Out! countering anti-religious hate in European media. Giulia is also a researcher, trainer and freelance journalist, specialising in hate speech, discrimination and misinformation. Her work has been featured in publications including New Internationalist and openDemocracy. She has an MA in International Journalism from Cardiff University (UK).

Ugochi  Anyaka-Oluigbo

a fellow of the Climate Change Media Partnership and Lancaster University UK –
​RECIRCULATE Knowledge Exchange Program, is a news anchor and environmental journalist with experience spanning over a decade in reporting extensively on environmental issues in Nigeria and globally. She has won several journalism awards including the UNEP Young Environmental Journalist 2012, 2019 Green Accord Environmental Award, Italy and UNFCCC CDM-African Radio Contest 2011. She is also a recipient of the Lagos State/UNDP environmental journalism recognition award and 2013 Future Africa Awards in Journalism recognition. She produced and presented  Green Angle on Aso Radio and TV Services, Abuja. She also produced and hosted Nigeria’s most popular environmental TV show, Green Angle on TVC News. She has hosted the BBC World Service’s Environmental Radio Programme, Local Warming. Currently, she is a freelance journalist covering environmental issues across Africa and Europe. Ugochi is a Green Media Strategist and an environmental filmmaker. 

Gideon Sarpong

Gideon Sarpong is a policy analyst and media practitioner with a decade of experience in policy, data and investigative journalism. Gideon is a co-founder of iWatch Africa and currently the Head of Policy and News. Gideon is also currently a Policy Leader Fellow at the European University Institute, School of Transnational Governance in Florence, Italy and an Open Internet for Democracy Leader at the National Democratic Institute in Washington DC. Gideon is an alumnus of University of Cape Coast in Ghana and the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning in South Africa with specialization in economics and public policy analysis.

Kristof Horvath
 
Currently involved with EIF, as a coordinator, organizer and administrative colleague, also taking up freelancing works as a GIS analyst. Previously working for the European Commission at the JRC, and as a project manager for low carbon agricultural projects at the United Nations FAO HQ in Rome.

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Mohamed Amjahid
SPEAKER
Freelance journalist
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Book Author
Berlin Germany
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Rufine Nadège Songué
SPEAKER
Regional coordinator
Netzwerk medien.vielfalt!
Freiburg Germany
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Lisa Mende
SPEAKER
Project Assistant,
Center for Security Studies ETH
​Zürich Switzerland
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Dr. Lorenz Wiese
SPEAKER
Networking coordinator, 
"(FFVT)”, 
​Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN), Germany
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Merlin Flaig
SPEAKER
Networking coordinator, " (FFVT)", 
​German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Germany.
PROFILE/BIO
Mohamed Amjahid

Mohamed Amjahid was born as the son of so-called guest workers in Frankfurt am Main in 1988. He attended school in Morocco until he graduated from high school. He studied political science in Berlin and Cairo and conducted research on various anthropological projects in North Africa. During his studies, he worked as a journalist for taz, Frankfurter Rundschau and Deutschlandfunk. After completing his master's degree, Amjahid worked as a trainee at the Tagesspiegel in Berlin. Afterwards he worked as a political reporter for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and Zeit Magazin. He is currently working on several new book projects. Anthropologically and journalistically, he focuses on human rights, equality and upheaval in the USA, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. On Twitter he writes under the handle @mamjahid, on Instagram @m_amjahid.

Rufine Nadège Songué

Regional coodinator | Netzwerk medien.vielfalt! → Since March 1, 2021
In charge connecting media producers/groups from the region south-west of GermanyProject coordinator | Interkultureller Verein FAIRBURG e.V. | April 2020 to February 2021
Coordination of the project "Zwischenraum" (safer space for refugees)
Empowerment workshops and cultural events for refugees.Radio Journalist and media trainer | RADIO DREYECKLAND FREIBURG| Since 01.01.2018
MASTER of Art „Literature and Media Studies“ | MARCH 2019 | UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH
BACHELOR of Art „German and English/American Studies“| SEPT. 2016| UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH


Lisa Mende

Lisa Mende is a project assistant in the Risk and Resilience Team at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zürich. Besides her current work on local crisis management, she is interested in immigrant integration at the local level. She holds a MA in European Affairs from Sciences Po Paris and a BA in Politics and Public Administration from the University of Konstanz.

​Merlin Flaig

Merlin Flaig works as a networking coordinator for the cooperation project "Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer (FFVT)" at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). He is an alumni of DIE's Postgraduate Programme and he holds a Master's degree in Social Sciences from University of Freiburg and University of Cape Town.

Dr. Lorenz Wiese
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Dr. Lorenz Wiese is a networking coordinator within the cooperation project “Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer (FFVT)”, affiliated with the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN). He received his doctorate on “Refugees welcome? How Germany, Canada, and Australia respond to contemporary migration” in 2019. Before, he completed a Master’s degree in Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. Beyond that, he was a founder and board member of the non-profit association Café Mondial Konstanz e.V. from 2015 to 2020.
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Lina chawaf
SPEAKER
Executive Manager  Rozana Media
Editor in Chief, Radio Rozana France
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Miranti Hirschmann
SPEAKER
Correspondent, TvOne Indonesia based in Germany
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​Amos Onyango
SPEAKER
Founder Lawy Afrik 
 Technology  Author, Project Manager
PLO Lumumba Foundation
​Kenya
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Joy Wanjiru Machugu-Zenz
SPEAKER
Founder of African Women in Europe (AWE), &
​ CEO of African
Women in Trade (AWT)
​Germany
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Kemo Camara
SPEAKER
Founder & CEO Omek 
Entrepreneur | Economist | Diversity & Inclusion Advocate 

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PROFILE/BIO
Lina Chawaf
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Ms Lina Chawaf is a journalist since 1992. She has established two radios station in Syria (Arabesque- Mussika) and she has been a program manager of Arabesque radio for seven years. She has also written newspaper and magazine articles (Baladna in Syria  – Almoustakbal in Canada and Shabablek in Syria  – Sabaya in Syria). She is a board member in CMFE.
As a media consultant with IMS she works as a trainer for journalists and she has worked as a TV reporter for Orient TV. She had her own radio program for 2 years (Arabesque). She established a new Syrian radio (Rozana) in Paris with the support of many European organizations.
She is a defender for human rights, woman rights and freedom of expression through media and was the winner of the 2018 reporters without borders’ press freedom award.

​Miranti Hirschmann
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Miranti Hirschmann is a journalist, writer, videographer and photographer based in Nuernberg, Germany. Since 2004, she has been traveling throughout Europe and has produced many writings on politics, sport, art, human interests and many more different issues. Miranti currently works as correpondent for one of Indonesia’s leading News Television Channels, TvOne Indonesia. She has her own podcast „Surat dari Jerman “(Letter from Germany) reliving her previous working experience as radio journalist at Deutsche Welle Radio. With her extensive 24 years’ in journalism, Miranti is often invited by different universities and communities to share her work experiences and to provide advice for young and aspiring journalists

​Amos Onyango

Amos Onyango is a trained teacher by profession. He holds a Bachelor's degree in English and Literature from Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. Amos is the Founder of Lawy Afrik Technology Limited (Lawy Afrik) an empowering and bold African fashion label with a simple aim; to renew a sense of pride in our African culture by creating a channel for all people to find confidence in expressing who they are.
He has been involved in extensive and intensive Pan Africanism activities spanning 38 African countries where the PLO-Lumumba Foundation operates. Together with the Foundation work, Amos Onyango serve as Executive Assistant to Prof. PLO-Lumumba.
His brainchild, Africa Mentorship Program has seen over 1000 youths across Africa get direct Mentorship from the acclaimed Pan Africanist and legal scholar, Prof. PLO-Lumumba.
Amos has authored three (3) books, an abridged personal memoir, Twists and Turns; A Story of Survival, Cyberbullying; A Crime Against Humanity and Trapped in Waithood; The Predicament of disempowered and disengaged African Youth.
As a project manager at the PLO-Lumumba Foundation, he steers a wide-ranging team of young people inclined towards the Pan Africanism agenda, more so, as anchored in AU’s Agenda 2063.

Joy Wanjiru Machugu-Zenz

Joy Zenz is the founder of African Women in Europe (AWE), the CEO of African Women in Trade (AWT) and Africa Market in Europe (AME), Chairlady of AWE Diaspora SACCO and CEO of AWE Academy. She has received several awards, Winner of 2018 African Business Support Award (The Voice Awards Amsterdam), and Won African Diaspora living Legend in Germany.

She was born in Kenya and is a mother to two, living in Germany. Her aim is to connect African Women living in Europe and around the world through AWE platform irrespective of their geographical locations.
Joy started her website in 2008 and now has over 6000 signed and actively involved women networking among each other.

AWE Host the AWE Awards every second year to acknowledge the achievement of its’ members in different categories.

She is the chairlady of AWE Diaspora SACCO where she recently managed to mobilise Kenyan women in Europe to collectively mobilise their remittance money in a way they can develop the economy of Kenya.
She has a diploma in Institution Management. She has worked in Pharmaceutical Company in Basel Switzerland as an administrator, communication expert and event assistant.

Kemo Camara
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Kemo is the founder of Omek, a community-centric platform whose mission is to unlock and share the talent, the voices, and energy of biculturals of African descent. Kemo is a social entrepreneur, community leader, economist, and public speaker. He has co-founded many businesses and non-profit organizations and played various leadership roles in community organizations in both the United States and Europe.


Kemo has more than 15 years of professional experience in leadership and management working for multinational corporations including banks and manufacturing companies. He is a firm believer in representation and equal access to opportunities. He enjoys bringing people from diverse backgrounds to work together toward a common goal.


​Kemo believes that the African diaspora talent, especially the bicultural group, is greatly untapped and underestimated and if unlocked, will make meaningful contributions to our economy and culture.

Kemo has lived and worked in cities across Africa, the United States, and Europe, and has a BA in Business Administration and a Master in Development Economics and International Studies.

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Vik Sohonie
SPEAKER
Grammy-Nominated Music Producer 
Founder of
​Ostinato Records

Editorial Board, Boycott Times​
Asia
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​Phumelele Dlamini
SPEAKER
Producer / Presenter   FACE IT
at Soweto Tv
South Africa
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Jacinta Odubanjo
SPEAKER
Controller Programmes 
​Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria
​ Premier FM Ibadan
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Christelle Ngaleu
SPEAKER
Journalist Member standing committee at 
Les Panafricaines
Cameroon
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Asha Siad
speaker
Award wining Journalist, 
 Founder 
​Memories of Mogadishu
Somali-Canadian
PROFILE/BIO
Vik Sohonie
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Vik is the founder of Ostinato Records, a record label revealing stories from the global South through music. Prior, he was a journalist in New York and worked for Reuters global news photo desk. He was born in India, grew up in the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore and studied and worked in the United States. He holds degrees in International Affairs, History, and Journalism. Ostinato Records was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2017 and the German Record Critics Prize in 2020. Vik is currently based in Bangkok and under normal circumstances splits his time between Asia and Africa.

Phumelele Dlamini

Phumelele Dlamini obtained her National Certificate for Film and Television production operation at LIMCO. Prior to that she did investigative Journalism course with KONDRAD. She was the first black South Africans to be trained by The KNIGHT International Journalism on Basic Health investigative Journalism and Producing. Her work experience on Radio and Television includes being a Radio host at Theta FM Maluti Morning live. Former Content Researcher at TMG- Ochre Media- Good Life Network. Former C-GEN Operator at Soweto TV news department.  Former Content Producer at SOUL CITY TV, Content Producer for Imbokodo woman’s show, Phaphama Health and currently producing FACE IT Health on Soweto TV. She is an HIV activist and also a member of Panafricaines woman Journalists. She’s a founder of FACE IT AFRICA an NPO dedicated to educate the community on Health and Migration related issues. 

Jacinta Odubanjo

Jacinta Odubanjo is a broadcast journalist, content provider and currently Controller Programmes, Radio Nigeria, Ibadan. (Premier FM). she was a Principal Radio Producer, 2017 to 2020, and Senior Producer between 2015 and 2017. A member of Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) also a member of Les Panafricaines, a network of African Women Journalists. 
Though in the media industry, I am professionally trained as a Special Educator of people with intellectual disability. Helping them bring out their potentials gives me a deep sense of satisfaction.
Radio is a platform for disseminating Information, it's for Entertainment and for Education. I have used it to teach people on how to treat and handle their wards who have intellectual disability and other forms of disabilities.
She holds a degree in Special Education/Communication and Language arts in 2009 and in a quest for a higher education, I proceeded with a Masters Degree on the Education of people with Intellectual Disability from 2014 to 2016.


Christelle Ngaleu

Christelle Ngaleu, is a Cameroonian journalist, she is a member of the standing committee of the network of women Journalists from Africa“Pan-African women”. 
She is the Central Africa correspondent for the Pan-African Men &Women of Africa Magazines, Communication Director de Gypse Africa Sarl African subsidiary of the French company COPLACAM Design and Build France, member of the Union de la Presse Francophone UPF, of the National Union of Journalists of Cameroon SNJC.
Promoter of the training school for medical and health personnel, Tcheandjieu Foundation in Bafang (para-public training school to train young girls and facilitate their professional social reintegration and avoid dangerous migrations).
Christelle Ngaleu is also a Life Coach and Mentor. Passionate about music and dance travel.
 She is very focused on the issue of the development of Africa, and the leadership of African women from which she set up in 2018 the concept of "Africa women leaders". Africa women leaders is a TV production highlighting African women leaders.

Asha Siad
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Asha Siad is an award-winning Somali-Canadian journalist and documentary filmmaker. Asha shares under-reported stories that expand the dialogue and allow people to connect with the world in a more meaningful way. She has reported for Shaw TV, CBC News and Frontiere News. Asha co-produced Living at the Border, a web documentary that shares the realities of African migrants and asylum-seekers in Italy. The project won the Amnesty International Canada Media Award for Best Online Journalism in 2014. Asha received the Images and Voices of Hope 2015 Award of Appreciation for showing a commitment to constructive change and amplifying hope through media. In 2016, she was honored by the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation as one of the Top 30 young people working towards a just and sustainable future. Asha’s latest documentary film for the National Film Board of Canada called 19 Days reveals the human side of the refugee resettlement process. She is the Director of the Memories of Mogadishu Initiative (MMI), which examines the use of memory and archives in the reconstruction of a once cosmopolitan city by those who have been displaced for the last 28 years by political instability.

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Sabika Shah Povia
SPEAKER
Freelance Journalist & Producer at LATV7
Communications Manager at The Association Carta di Roma.
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Benedictus Kwame Agbelom
speaker
Community Manager
Migrant Media Network
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Meité ​Awa
SPEAKER
​​Film director, Activist  Fashion Designer
Founder Ceo 
​AWA-MEITE-Design
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Mali
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Sara Creta
speaker
Award-winning journalist & documentary filmmaker, with extensive experience investigating human rights abuses.
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Celso Soares
SPEAKER
Chairman of the Board CulturFACE-Cultural Association for Development.
  ​Portugal​
PROFILE/BIO
Sabika Shah Povia

Sabika Shah Povia is an Italian-Pakistani journalist who writes mainly on terrorism in Europe, Islam, integration and migration. She is a promoter of greater rights for the second generations and for migrants. She has contributed to various national and international newspapers, including The Post International, Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, CNN International, Reuters, News International and ANSA. She also works with organizations such as the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees and the October 3 Committee. She holds a degree in Journalism from the Arts University in London.
Areas of expertise: immigration, social integration, race & human rights
Communications Manager at The Association Carta di Roma.

Benedictus Agbelom

Benedictus Agbelom is a Project Manager currently the Community Manager for Migrant Media Network an initiative to provide potential migrants with reliable information and training on migration issues & social media to Mitigating propaganda, hate speech & misinformation on social media concerning irregular migration/ human smuggling / returning migrants. (https://migrantmedia.network)
Benedictus, is also the Field Guide Resources manager for #defyhatenow Counter violent extremism online and offline in Cameroon. (www.defyhatenow.org). Furthermore, He is currently the COO & Co-founder of Studentjobsgh, a Social Enterprise with focus on Youth self-empowerment opportunities, peer to peer network community and information center for students & graduates in Ghana. (https://www.studentjobsgh.com)

​Awa Meité
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She is a versatile artist, originally from Bamako (Mali), has worked as a filmmaker, painter and fashion designer, both in her country and in France. Her African roots inspire her works and are evident in all her artistic productions.
After graduating from the Lycée Liberté  in Bamako, the capital of Mali, in 1991, she began studying Sociology in New York (United States) in 1994. 
In 1992 she became interested in painting and took a course in the United States and another in her hometown. 
In 2004, she was able to train in the world of styling for three months at the Lettelier Workshop in Paris. she also took a training course on new technologies at the Langois Foundation in Montreal, in 2007.

In 1998 she created the Association Routes du Sud , organizing in 2004 for UNESCO the event  Le Sud aide le Sud face au Sida . 
Since 2007 she has coordinated the 
Daoula project for the promotion of cotton production in his country. She has also been the producer and director of the documentary Femmes, environnement et créativité and has developed a multitude of painting exhibitions and fashion shows throughout the European and African continents. In 2012 she published her first work, Memoire d'oublis, with the Taama publishing house .
She has had the opportunity to carry out numerous painting and design exhibitions in France and Mali. she has also been able to perform some fashion shows at the Café de la Gare (Paris) in 2000, at Daoula, UNESCO (Paris) in 2005 and at the Afric Collection Festival (Cameroon) in 2006. In addition, he has received numerous awards such as the Prize of the international press at the Eclat de Mode show in Paris in 2005 and the UEMOA / UNESCO Prize in Burkina Faso in 2004.
Her designs can be purchased at San Toro in Bamako (Mali), Malloni in Milan (Italy), Africa Design in Bologna (Italy), Shirdak in Amsterdam (Netherlands), So and So Store in Paris (France), Najad in Dakar ( Senegal) and at Galerie Noel in Montreal (Canada).

Sara Creta
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Sara Creta is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, with extensive experience investigating human rights abuses.
Over the past years, she documented on-the-ground conditions in forced migration situation, human rights violation, crisis management andcultures in transition. Her work has appeared on The New York Times, Al Jazeera English, The Spiegel, RTE, Arte, NRK, ZDF, AJ+, Channel 4, TheGuardian, Middle East Eye, Euronews, BBC, The New Humanitarian, O Globo, Equal Times, El Diario, El Pais, La Repubblica.

Celso Soares

Celso Soares, born in São Tomé and Príncipe, Portuguese nationality. Currently, News Media Content Manager, Director and Presenter of the Intercultural and Inclusive Program, SAVANA from Rádio Cruzeiro de Odivelas, Portugal. Member of the Council for Migration of the High Commissioner for Migration (ACM), Portugal, sworn in Representative of the Santomense Community in Portugal, next to the ACM (Triennium 2021-2023).
Degree in Communication Sciences, Public Relations (Institutional Communication) at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL), Postgraduate in Webdesign Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciência. He has a Seminar in European Studies by the Information Center for Europe in Portugal, through the newspaper O Público, CENJOR and the European Union. He is Mentor of the Miss CPLP project and President of the Miss Countries of the Portuguese Language Committee. He is dedicated to Content and Image Management and has an appetite for Communication, Media and Justice. He is an associative leader and Representative Member at the Municipal Council for Interculturality and Citizenship - CMIC at the Lisbon City Council.
Member of UNITED ACTION, Malaga, Spain, May 2015; Member of the Honorary Committee of the Biennial of Lusophone Cultures, City of Odivelas; Member of the Communication for Communication and Culture at the World Social Forum (WSF), January Tunis 2015 and Tunisia, March 2013, Tunisia; WSF member in Brasilia, Brazil, December 2010;
 
He was a technical staff of the former Ministry of Social Equipment and Environment in São Tomé and Príncipe in the 1990s. Director and presenter of several radio programs in São Tomé and Príncipe, with emphasis on “Sintonia Nova” and “Página da Ecologia” on Rádio Nacional of São Tomé and Príncipe. He went through the program “Cartas na Mesa” by Rádio Renascença. He was presenter of the program “Onda Tropical” at Rádio Vila Nova de Gaia (Porto) in the late 90s. After the General Journalism Course at CENJOR (Protocol Training Center for Journalists) he did an internship at Rádio Nova Antena and later collaborated at Rádio Atneu (Vila Franca de Xira) with the program aimed at African countries of Portuguese expression. Recently Intercultural Mediator at the Municipality of Loures, through PROSAUDESC with funding from the European Union and the High Commissioner for Intercultural Dialogue (Current ACM - High Commissioner for Migration).
 
Since September 2018, he has been the Manager of the Integrated Image and Communication Resources Office for the Third Sector - GIIRC’3º. This is a project under the Municipal Plan for the Integration of Migrants in the City of Lisbon, financed by the European Union's Fund for Asylum and Migration and Integration - FAMI, through the High Commission for Migration (ACM), Portugal.



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Chiponda Chimbelu
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Editor & Member of Editorial Board, Deutsche Welle, Germany
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Frankie Reid
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Research and Production Coordinator, Migration Matters e.V., Germany
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Moaeed Shekhane
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Founder
Darb Attabana Jugendclub 

Germany
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​Adam Labaran
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Vice-President  Refugees Union in Portugal (União de Refugiados Em Portugal –(UREP)
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Sista Oloruntoyin
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Psychosocial Counselor, Justice Advocate, Co-Founder of Black Community Coalition For Justice & Self-Defense
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Chiponda Chimbelu 

Chiponda Chimbelu is a Zambian-American journalist based in Berlin. He mainly works for Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, where he is a member of the editorial board. His work focuses on diversity, equity and inclusion in editorial content. Chimbelu also works in the DW newsroom, as a producer and reporter for business news.

Frankie Reid

Before taking on the role of research and production coordinator at Migration Matters, I worked in the social sciences department at Kiron Open Higher Education while studying remotely for my Master's in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies from the University of London. I have been with Migration Matters since November 2019, producing short educational video series on the relationship between climate change and migration, how to talk about migration, and belonging and identity for young migrants in Europe. 

Adam Labaran​
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known as “Adam Labar”  in the music business. I am the vice-president of the Refugees Union in Portugal (União de Refugiados Em Portugal – UREP), the Director for Cultural and Social activities of the Refugees Forum (Fórum Refúgio Portugal) and a reggae and afrobeat singer/songwriter. I am also the director of the international relations department of the World Peace Volunteers in, a non-political civil society organisation committed to promoting world peace and human rights in Ghana.

The Refugee Union In Portugal (UREP) was created on 10 May 2013, formed by refugee communities in Portugal, with the aim of promoting and integrating refugees into Portuguese society.  Every day, refugees face a range of social problems. Through intercultural mediation, UREP supports refugees in integrating into Portuguese society, providing access to means of social inclusion that dignify each person. UREP's multidisciplinary team supports refugees' collaboration with other institutions to develop effective responses to refugees' issues. ​

Oloruntoyin LaToya Manly-Spain

Sista Oloruntoyin (Oloruntoyin LaToya Manly-Spain) is a certified psychosocial counselor with a focus on psychology in cultural contexts, African knowledges and indigenous practices and committed to addressing the mental health needs of the African Diasporic communities.
She also is a Yoruba vocal and performance artist and member of ARRiVATi, an African collective that uses art as an instrument of resistance and develops strategies for emancipation, decolonization and community care.
She has more than 20 years of experience in the self-organization of Black interest groups in Hamburg.
Member of GPAN (Global Pan African Network) & BMHM (Black Mental Health Matters)

Moaeed Shekhane

Mo, is the founder of the diasporic youth club DARB ATTABANA (Arabic for the Milky Way) Hamburg.
it brings together young creative minds – regardless of their ethnic, sexual, or gender identities or their social and educational backgrounds. 
The project allows participants to negotiate their identities, express their political beliefs and develop individual creative forms. The group aims to empower each participant and invent new transcultural rituals and codes.

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Moaz Mh Drkhbani
Vice President
Organizing Committee
CMMA 2021