KAREN F MUKWASI

• Company Overview: Founder and director of a feminist digital inclusion platform that works at the intersection of women’s rights and digital rights. The platform is the winner of the Women Rising Award Shoko 2018 and was recognised by the #SheTransformsTech report produced by Worldpulse in 2021
• Launched the Young Feminist School in January 2024 and the initiative has grown to include 200 young women
• Introduced Feminist Tech as a programming Area and to date the first feminist tech hackathon to be held in Zimbabwe has produced three viable tech solutions
• Trained up to 105 women human rights Defenders in Digital literacy, literacy, advocacy and security training
• Started the Feminist Tech Dialogues to create a space for women to interact with technology in a safe feminist environment

Company Overview: The Zimbabwe Chapter for the Global Internet Society.

• Initiated the first digital citizenship project for women
• Managed chapter events
• Coordinated the launch of the first community network in Murambinda Zimbabwe
• Produced a short documentary on the effect of the digital divide on young people during the Covid 19 pandemic period
• Aligning local chapter communications with the internet global communication strategy.

• Developed and implemented new communication strategy
• Documentation of projects for M and E purposes
• Facilitation of gender responsive budget workshops
• Newsletter editing
• Social media management and website maintenance
• Events management

• Managed one year project on the engagement of men and boys to create safe spaces for women.
• Co-produced short film "Mukanya"
• Project resource mobilisation
• Outreach coordination

• Coordination of the International Images film festival for women in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda and Somalia.
• Resource mobilisation
• Curation of the festival program
• Editing the festival newsletter

• Communication support for film and artistic projects
• Social media management