The Team
We are a talented group of individuals, with multifaceted skills within the developmental, entrepreneurial and creative Industry; who have come together in pursuit of reshaping the arts sector in Tanzania.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Mwambulukutu is a trained Economist from the University of Sussex. She draws on diverse experience in African development projects from the agricultural sector, business environment reforms and the creative industry. Through her profession, she champions more opportunities for Africans to tell their stories to champion the socio-economic empowerment and inclusion of youth and women.
Elizabeth is a Mandela Washington Fellow (MWF), Leo Africa Institute’s Young and Emerging Leader and the Vice Curator of the Global Shapers Arusha Hub, an initiative of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Shadrack
Shadrack Kamenya is an award winning social entrepreneur and innovator with over five years experience in entrepreneurial leadership, social entrepreneurship and technology. Shadrack is currently the team lead and founding head of JAMVI, a social enterprise and agri-technology company that enables millennial and youth to generate extra income through investing in fish farming.
Prior founding JAMVI, Shadrack co-founded Youth Alive Africa, an entrepreneurial leadership program that equips youth to transform their communities.
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Bonita
Bonita Ngonyani is a Tanzanian, UK based entrepreneur and owner of Rebel Roots (African Hair and beauty Products) and HerCBD( Women’s health and well-being). An experienced Digital Marketing Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization industry.
Strong marketing professional with a master’s degree focused in International Finance and Economic Development from Heriot-Watt University and Awarded the departmental prize for International Finance and Economic Development
Karsan
Karsan Gabriel is a Digital Dreamer and poet, a protagonist of the youth narrative in building our dream internet through equity and accessibility, internet for all.
With a background in computer science, he uses his skill sets in breaking complexities in the technology world with a podcast called dream internet voices and is a passionate volunteer at The Union of Tanzania Press Clubs as a youth liaisons contributing to media democracy and freedom of expression online.
He is a pragmatic activist fighting for digital rights and an internet for all.
Advisory Board
Amani Katana
Founder and Executive Director at Youth Empowerment Program Initiative (YEPI), a Youth-led organization committed to address unemployment, poverty and violent extremism among the youth in the coastal region of Kenya. As an award-winning social entrepreneur, Amani brings in over 5 years international experience in Social Entrepreneurship, Business Development and Youth Engagement. He has successfully completed a broad range of projects in partnership with the US, Europe and African development agencies including; US Embassy Kenya, US African Development Foundation, Adam Smith International, Stiftung Managerohnegrenzen gGmbH, Tony Elumelu Foundation, IREX, Aga Khan Foundation, Global Development Incubator, YALI among others.
Ann Wettrich
Ann is an artist, educator and arts consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area in the US. Her current work addresses pressing social, cultural and environmental concerns. She is one of two lead artists from Fieldworks Collaborative; Director of Programs & Administration for Emergent Art Space working with young artists across the globe; and professor of Museum Studies at City College of San Francisco. She has served in creative leadership, program development and advisory roles with numerous educational institutions, civic agencies and nonprofit organizations including the California Arts Council, the California College of the Arts, San Francisco State University, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Alameda County Arts Commission.
Our Partners
