Muadi Mukenge

Muadi Mukenge is an expert on women’s health and rights, political transition, and economic development in Africa. Mukenge is currently the Chief of Development and External Relations at IPAS, previously she was the Project Director of African Health Professions Regional Collaborative at Emory University. Prior to that, she was the Regional Director for Sub-Saharan 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. Mukenge frequently advises individual and institutional donors on their Africa programs.

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, and various international conferences and media outlets such as NPR and Pacifica Radio affiliates.

Ms. Mukenge brings 15 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 also worked as a reporter/researcher at U.S. News and World Report.

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.