Muadi Mukenge

Muadi Mukenge is an expert on women’s health and rights in Africa. Ms. Mukenge is currently the program officer for Africa at The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men who advocate for and defend women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world.

Ms. Mukenge is a sought after speaker, and has presented on African women's health, civic and political participation and human rights in Africa to audiences at the Commonwealth Club of California, the World Affairs Council, UC Berkeley among others.

She writes saying, "I want them to say African Foreign Relations instead of "international issues."

Ms. Mukenge brings 13 years of program management and communications experience applied in the non-profit sector and academia to her work with The Global Fund for Women. Prior to joining the Global Fund in April 2004, she served as Program Officer for Africa at the Pacific Institute for Women's Health, where she managed training and evaluation projects with women's NGOs, and managed the Pacific Institute's grant-making program and communications initiative. As Alumni and Public Relations Coordinator with Coro Southern California, a leadership training institute, she produced communications materials and managed alumni fundraising campaigns.

From 1993-1997, Mukenge worked at the JSC African Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she assisted research initiatives, organized international conferences and produced research publications. She worked as a reporter/researcher at U.S. News and World Report for one year.

Ms. Mukenge holds a Master's Degree in African Studies from UCLA with a concentration in political science and political economy and earned a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Davidson College. She is fluent in French and is originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo.