Akosua Hanson is a feminist, artistic activist, and a radio & TV presenter at Y 107.9 FM based in Accra, Ghana. She is the creator of Moongirls, a graphic novel series.

Audrey Gadzekpo is a Professor of communication and media studies at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Ghana. Her research focuses on the nexus between media, and concerns such as gender, health, climate change, governance, and history. 

During her leadership as Dean of the School of Information and Communication Studies, the School, in 2020, partnered with Alliance for Women in Media  Ghana (AWMA) to conduct and publish research on ‘the status of women in the Ghanaian media.’ Advocacy tools from that research are being used to push for newsroom reforms in Ghana.  

Audrey is Chair of Panos West Africa (PIWA), a media development organisation based in Senegal; Vice-Chair of CDD-Ghana, and Patron of AWMA.

She holds a Ph.D. in African Studies from the University of Birmingham, U.K., an M.A. in Communications from Brigham Young University, Utah, USA and a B.A. in English from the University of Ghana.

Akua Opokua Britwum is an Associate Professor at the Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She holds a Doctorate from Maastricht University, The Netherlands. She obtained her first and second degrees from the University of Ghana, Legon and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cape Coast. She previously served as the Director of the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation at the University of Cape Coast. 

She has been associated with the universities of Kassel in Germany where held the Ela Bhatt-Guest Professor Chair with the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Johannesburg, South Africa as Senior Research Associate. She was also the Convenor, Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) and remains an associate fellow of the Global Labour University. In 2016 she served as a member, Expert Group Meeting: for the sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 61) with the theme “Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work”. 

Other positions she has held include serving as a Coordinator of Gender and Trade Union Cluster of Global Labour University Alumni Applied Research School, a reference Group Member of the WIEGO as well as the African Regional Focal Person of the International Research Network for Domestic Workers. 

Prof. Britwum serves as reviewer for several journals and is currently on Editorial Boards of the Global Labour Journal and Oguaa Journal of Social Sciences and an advisory board member of International Review of Social History. Her teaching and research cover development related subjects including Gender Issues in Development, Development Philosophy and Theory, Trade Unionism, as well as women’s labour status in the informal economy. She is engaged in research exploring childcare and inequality in Ghana and South Africa, agricultural digitalisation in Ghana and labour and work in post-colonial Ghana.

Eunice Rachel Agbenyadzi is a development practitioner with over eighteen years of experience in gender and women’s rights, program management, and organisation development. Eunice has extensive experience in project management and has contributed to the successful rollout of governance initiatives in Ghana, Cameroon, and The Gambia. She has led on strategy development, partnership development, and donor relations in different roles within international organisations and multi-donor pooled funds. She has solid experience in gender and social inclusion programming and advocacy. 

Eunice has for several years worked as Policy Advisor for Governance, where she led on research and the coordination of civil society organisations and state dialogues and engagements on issues of access, quality, and equity in the delivery of public services delivery. As a GESTALT organisational development practitioner, Eunice has experience in organisational learning and is conversant with adult learning and training methodologies. Eunice holds a master’s degree in Business Administration, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, and professional certificates in Organisational Development, GESTALT in organisations, Leadership, and Advisory services. Eunice currently works with STAR-Ghana Foundation as the Programmes Manager.

Joyce is a Special Aide to John Dramani Mahama, a former President of the Republic of Ghana. She is also a former Deputy Minister for Transport of Ghana.

She holds a Master of Arts Degree (MA) in International Peace and Security from the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Institute, a Master of Laws Degree (LLM) in International Maritime Transport Law from the IMO’s International Maritime Law Institute, Malta where she finished as the best overall best student in international maritime law. She also has a Qualifying Certificate in Law (QCL) from the Ghana Law School, an LLB Law Degree from the University of London, Holborn College.

During her term of office as Deputy Minister for Transport from May 2013 to January 2017, Joyce was responsible for the formulation and dissemination of Government transportation policy for implementation by the fifteen (15) Transport Sector agencies within the various modes that the Ministry had oversight responsibility of namely; Aviation, Maritime & Inland Waterways, Railways and Road Transport Services.

She has served on various Boards including the Ghana Shippers’ Authority, the National Lotteries Authority, and the PSC Tema Shipyard Company Limited. Prior to her appointment as a Deputy Minister in May 2013, she was the Head of the Legal Department and Solicitor Secretary of the Ghana Shippers’ Authority.  

Joyce has advised extensively on financial transactions, corporate acquisitions, mergers and amalgamations and has represented Ghana at a number of Diplomatic Conferences and meetings and advised extensively on the adoption of International Maritime Transport Instruments, Regulations and Conventions, and participated actively in the Working Group on the development of the Rotterdam Rules from 2008 to 2012. She has also served as an expert for the Ghanaian Admiralty Court, an IMO expert, and consultant.

Joyce is an experienced mediator and has mediated several cases, both locally and internationally. She communicates for the National Democratic Congress and was Spokesperson fir the 2016 Campaign.

Joyce is currently a Managing Partner of Praetorium Solicitors Unlimited. She is a member of the Ghana Bar Association, the international Bar Association, the African Women Lawyers Association and the Women in International Shipping and Trade Association (WISTA) and an alumnus of the US-International Visitor Leadership Programme.

Joyce is married to Dr. Hudu Mogtari and they have four children. Joyce loves  to exercise, she enjoys reading, writing, and travelling. She is a social entrepreneur, a Coach of many years, a Speaker par excellence and enjoys mentoring young people.

Prof. Akosua K. Darkwah is a sociologist by training and teaches at the University of Ghana.  Her primary area of research interest is gender and work in the Ghanaian context.  She has been a member of the Network for Women’s Rights (NETRIGHT) for the last decade and a half and currently serves as its Convenor.

Tiffany Kagure Mugo is the intoxicatingly scary gatekeeper of HOLA Africa, a Pan African sex-positive digital platform  dealing with sex and sexuality. She is a Ted speaker. podcast host of Basically Life Podcast and bad ass Board Member of FRIDA Fund as well as the curator of Touch: Sex, Sexuality and Sensuality author of the book Quirky Quick Guide To Having Great Sex. She’s a media consultant and freelance journalist who tackles sex, politics and other less interesting topics. Once upon a time she was an Open Society Youth Fellow and now has dreams of studying some new things. During weekends she is a wine bar philosopher and polymath for no pay.

Biubwa Marylize is a black queer intersectional feminist and activist. Their activism is on social justice with a deliberate gender bias. Their feminism is intersectional and radical in nature to allow for championing the rights of all humans. As a rape survivor, their motivation to activism and feminism is to see a world where womxn and non binary persons are free to express and explore their sexuality and identity without being sexually objectified, for womxn to have a voice and choice over their bodies(bodily autonomy), and for consent to be a bare minimum when it comes to female interactions with males. 

They’re also a writer, currently working on authoring their own books on the typical life of a Kenyan queer person highlighting the day to day challenges and approaches that can be used to change narratives and save lives of queer folk. Their work is, aside from working with partners, allys and different CSOs, mainly on social media which provides a suitable platform to propel the agenda of acquiring and obtaining information. To demystify myths about womxn and their sexuality and myths around persons of the LGBTIQGNC+ community.