Ineza is an Afrika Ecofeminist and founder and CEO of The Green Protector, a Rwandan youth-lead NGO striving for environmental protection through the design and implementation of youth community- based projects.

Hope is a pioneer in using art as a tool for peacebuilding and a celebrated leader of the Rwanda and the African continent’s arts sector.  She is the founder of the acclaimed Ubumuntu Arts Festival. She uses art to promote values of humanity and healing, a unique approach that centers storytelling to help communities around the world to deal with their own traumas and to triumph over adversity. Raised as a refugee in Uganda before returning to Rwanda in 1998, Hope’s work as a writer, performer and teacher has taken her to many theaters and universities around the world. She was artist-in-residence at the Institute for the Arts and Civic Dialogue in Cambridge-Massachusetts, is an alumni of Brown University International advanced research institute in 2013, is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and is a fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI-ASPEN-Institute).

Christelle Kwizera is a female mechanical engineer and social entrepreneur. She founded Water Access Rwanda in 2014 to address the water crisis and youth unemployment in Africa. Since then the company has provided water to over 160,000 individuals, farms and businesses using boreholes and INUMA™ safe water mini—grids. The social enterprise has been awarded with the Africa Entrepreneurship Award, the EDF pulse Africa Award, WeEmpower SDG Award, and is also recognized as an SDG innovator by UNSDSN. It was dotted with the Jack Ma Africa Business Heroes Award and funded as a transformer through IsDB’s Transform Fund. Christelle is a Resolution fellow, a Sierra Club GPEP fellow, a MILEAD fellow, a princess Diana awardee and Fondation Channel’s 2019 Woman Entrepreneur of the Year; all awarded on account of her leadership in addressing social issues, particularly those tied with environmental justice and Youth issues.

Safari Sammy is a young tourism entrepreneur from Rwanda. Sammy is the CEO of Serenity Adventure Safaris, a Tour and Travel Company in Rwanda that provides safaris and travel-related services throughout East Africa. He is also the CEO of Miss Tourism Rwanda which is a beauty pageant company with the aim to celebrate and promote Rwandan culture and beauty. With 5 years of experience in the tourism and hospitality industry, he works hard to promote the Rwandan tourism products both domestically and internationally.

Musagara Andre has been a Musekeweya radio drama script writer and director since 2007. His task consists of practicing Musekeweya methodology by infusing psychological messages of healing, unity, reconciliation and sustainable peace in Rwanda. He is also author of many other serial radio dramas about behavior change, as well as several youth educational publications. He is trained in techniques of soap opera and Radio Drama for social change, as well as Edutainment for social change. Musagara Andre is a holder of a Master’s Degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Transformation and a Bachelor’s Degree in Law.

Felicite Rwemalika uses female participation in football to build self-confidence and social support among poor rural women in Rwandan society. Through the Association of Kigali Women in Sports (AKWOS ), she uses women's participation in sports to challenge the cultural and historical status quo, demonstrating their ability to improve their lives and develop their communities. She is also an Ashoka Fellow. Felicite serves as the Chairperson to two NGOs: WE ACT FOR HOPE and the Rwanda Non-Governmental Organization on HIV/AIDS and Health Promotion. She was awarded the IOC Women and Sport Award for the African Continent 2016, has been elected IOC member in 2018 and was also awarded the AIMF Femme Francophone in 2019, as Woman of the Year.