Advisory Board

Grace Stone (They/Them/She)

Grace is a Ugandan rural transgender nonbinary youth, human rights defender, sex worker, and a strong HIV/AIDS advocate for LGBT+, diverse, and sex worker communities in Eastern Africa.

They faced a lot of stigmas, mob justice from community members and leaders. They have survived death through lynching, leaving their body with a lot of big scars, this pushed them to make a lot of advocacy in their home country.

They are para-legal, and peer leaders for the LGBT+ community and they are also the founder and Executive Director of Lived Realities, a local organization working to advance the rights of LGBT+ and sex worker communities in Eastern Uganda and beyond. They focus on economic empowerment, health equity, and wellbeing for the communities they serve.

Grace is also a fellow at Smug Quchu Leadership Academy (SQLA).

Enos Ogada (She/Her)

Enos is a passionate African queer Trans-feminist and gender minority rights activist from Kenya. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Community Health and Development from Jaramogi University of Science and Technology. She is trained on human rights mechanisms by Pan-African ILGA and also has done a course with International People’s Health University on Gender, Justice, and Health. Enos is a qualified community social worker with 3 years of experience in advocating and defending the rights of LGBTIQ persons in Kenya. Previously, she worked at Nyanza Rift valley Western Kenya Network (NYARWEK) which was formed to be the voice of LGBTI persons with the aim to build the capacities of its members, integrate views and advocate for the human rights of LGBTI persons. she served as a program assistant with responsibilities to respond to security issues, making communications, coordinating meetings, training, events, leading facilitation, and initiating a local partnership with other organizations.

Currently, she is the advocacy and communications officer at Trans*Alliance Kenya, an organization working to advance community health, education, advocacy, capacity building, research collaboration, intersectional organizing, socio-support networking amongst trans, intersex, and non-binary movements in Kenya.