Malaika Oringo
Malaika Oringo is the Founder and CEO of Footprint to Freedom, a survivor-led organization. She is also the Founder of Footprint to Climate and the African Survivor Coalition. A talented advocate, she speaks up against human trafficking, stands up for victims’ rights and works to strengthen survivor inclusion and engagement. Malaika has spoken on various stages throughout Europe and at the United Nations in New York. Raised in Uganda in harsh conditions and exploited in the Netherlands, she has devoted her life to fighting against human trafficking. Malaika believes that since survivors are the most significant stakeholders in the fight against human trafficking, they should sit at decision-making tables from the community level to the national level and the international level.
Joy Sunday Kingsley
Joy Sunday Kingsley is a passionate anti-human trafficking advocate from Nigeria with a background in Experiential Marketing and Communications. Driven by her passion for social justice, she transitioned into the anti-human trafficking space. Currently, Joy holds the vital role of Movement Building and Communications Coordinator for Footprint to Freedom. She is also one of the major driving forces behind the development of the African Survivor Coalition—a network dedicated to empowering, uniting, and amplifying the voices of survivor leaders across all 54 African Nations.
Joy collaborates closely with individuals who have lived-experience to develop programs, initiatives, and resources aimed at enhancing survivor capacity and ensuring their voices resonate powerfully. She takes immense pride in her knack for bringing ideas to life, executing initiatives that leave a lasting impact on the human trafficking landscape.
Godfrey Mpandikizi
Godfrey Mpandikizi is the Executive Director at Tanzania Anti-Human Trafficking and Legal Initiatives (TATLI). As the Director for TATLI, he combats human trafficking in Tanzania while building a centralized human trafficking movement, supporting victims of human trafficking through legal aid and social support, providing advocacy and lobbying, conducting strategic litigation cases, and giving access to justice to victims of human trafficking. Mr. Mpandikizi has more than 15 years of experience working on human rights. He is also an Advocate of the High Court of Tanzania and admitted Legal Counsel to the African Court on Human and People’s Rights. Mr Mpandikizi has keen interest in building survivors of human trafficking in Africa.
Dr. Hyab Yohannes
Hyab Yohannes, PhD holder from the University of Glasgow, is a research associate and academic coordinator for CUSP N+. He conducts research, synthesizes findings, draws expertise from various fields, and builds academic and non-academic collaborations. Hyab recently signed a book contract with Routledge for his upcoming book, “The Coloniality of the Refugee.” He is a member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland and holds several management and leadership roles outside academia.
Awah Francisca Mbuli
Awah Francisca Mbuli is a survivor of sex and labor trafficking and almost a victim of organ trafficking. She is the founding director of Survivors’ Network (SN), a female-led Cameroonian NGO comprised of trafficking survivors that raises awareness, helps victims escape their trafficking situations, and offers temporary housing, vocational training, and other essential services that survivors need for successful reintegration. As a survivor, she uses her experience to educate and prevent others in Cameroon from experiencing human trafficking. Since 2015, her organization has helped over 50 women from West and Central Africa free themselves from their situations of forced labor, including debt bondage, in the Middle East. Under her leadership, Survivors’ Network has built a unique approach to survivor empowerment by focusing on economic independence and fostering entrepreneurship among women and girls. She has provided guidance to more than 2,000 victims of trafficking, and her organization has helped create economic opportunities for more than 400 survivors and internally displaced persons (women) across Cameroon by providing micro financing to small businesses and income-generating projects as well as job and small business training.
Afasi Komla
Afasi Komla is the director of End Modern Slavery at Engage Now Africa, an international non-governmental organization with offices in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Namibia. Afasi manages the rescue initiative addressing modern day slavery and human trafficking at its roots in high risk communities through strategic prevention, rescue, rehabilitation, and prosecution programs. He is also the African regional coordinator at ENA’s partner organization Freedom Now International where he is responsible for training rescued and rehabilitated survivors of trafficking on sustainable livelihood support programs. Afasi has a master’s degree in Management Development (MDM) from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He also has a first degree in Operation and Project Management from GIMPA. He is passionate about ENA’s purpose to heal, rescue, and lift vulnerable individuals and families, empower communities, and in creating results oriented self-reliant programs all of which have distinguished Mr. Afasi Komla as an experienced and recognized leader in Africa.
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