Nora Fyles

Nora听Fyles has worked in the field of education and social change for over 40 years, focusing on girls鈥� education, gender equality, education management, capacity development and partnership building. From 2012 to 2021, Ms. Fyles was the Director of the UN Girls鈥� Education Initiative (UNGEI) and guided the partnership to become a global leader and premium platform for advancing girls鈥� education and gender equality.听Before joining UNGEI, Ms. Fyles headed the CIDA Education Policy team (2006-2012); served as Senior Education Specialist for CIDA鈥檚 Asia Branch (2003-2006); and Senior Gender Advisor for Status of Women Canada (2002-2003). Prior to her time at CIDA, Ms. Fyles worked for multilateral organizations, NGOs, educational institutions and government ministries in Central America, Asia and Africa with a focus on education and gender issues. Ms. Fyles is currently a gender and education consultant based in Ottawa, Canada.

Natasha Harris-Harb

Natasha (she/her) is an intersectional feminist. As the Lead of Youth Movements and Feminist Leadership at UNGEI, Natasha works to shift the power dynamics for young feminists and feminist civil society organizations to meaningfully partner in all processes in progressing gender equality in and through education. Natasha has deep experience in feminist movement growing, campaigning and policy advocacy for gender transformative education. She has worked with and advised civil-society, UN agencies, governments and youth organizations on feminist intergenerational partnerships.As the lead of Chalk Back, a global young feminist led nonprofit, Natasha coordinates a group of activists globally in campaigning against gender-based violence.

Natasha holds a Master's in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership from Carleton University and a Bachelor's degree in International Development and Gender Studies from the University of Ottawa.

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Pontso Moorosi

Dr Pontso Moorosi is an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, where she teaches and supervises postgraduate research. Dr Moorosi earned her doctorate in Gender and Educational Leadership at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Since then, she has been involved in a range of research projects on women in educational leadership and school leadership development, including a longitudinal national evaluation of a school leadership development programme. More recently, her work is informed by intersectionality, critical race and postcolonial theories, as lenses through which she engages critical issues on leadership, scholarship and coloniality. She has published extensively in these areas, including a recently co-edited Bloomsbury Handbook on Gender and Educational Leadership and Management. Dr Moorosi is a co-founder and co-convenor of the research interest group on gender and educational leadership in the British Educational Leadership Management & Administration Society (BELMAS).

Sitawa Wafula

Sitawa Wafula is a mental health crusader who uses her journey as a rape survivor living with a dual diagnosis of epilepsy and bipolar disorder to provide people in Africa with the necessary information and support to deal with everyday life and manage mental health conditions. She is the founder and executive director of 鈥淢y Mind, My Funk鈥�, a mental health information and support hub, which ran Kenya鈥檚 first free mental health support line. She is an active blogger and a weekly online radio contributor for EAT online and South Africa鈥檚 Radio Junto. Sitawa has been recognized as a non-communicable disease champion by Kenya鈥檚 Ministry of Health, and was named among the top 40 under 40 women in Kenya. She is an Open Aspen fellow.听