Public Servant • Social Entrepreneur • Advocate for Widows & Women’s Empowerment
Hope Ifeyinwa Nwakwesi, PhD. Educational Administration and Planning is a public servant, social entrepreneur, and educationist with over 35 years of experience as a teacher, administratorand consultant in both public and private schools.
As a widow survivor, she is the Founding Executive Director of Almanah Hope Foundation
Through her leadership, Hope continues to advance widows’ rights, gender inclusion, and women’s empowerment across Nigeria and Africa.
Tara Martins Aisida is a Nigerian family law attorney, writer, grief counsellor, radio host, and social advocate committed to advancing women’s rights, emotional wellbeing, and social justice within African contexts. Her work focuses on supporting women navigating loss, family transitions, and structural inequality, with particular attention to the lived experiences of widows.
Through her women-focused radio programme Life with Tara, she leads public conversations on dignity, resilience, accountability, and rebuilding life after loss, highlighting the legal, emotional, and socio-economic challenges women face and the need for rights-based, culturally responsive solutions.
Grounded in the belief that access to justice, legal protection, and economic empowerment are essential to sustainable development, Tara contributes to initiatives and dialogues that promote inclusion, equity, and community-driven social change.
Ifeoma Uddoh is a very analytical, result driven professional with years of experience in business strategy formulation and review, market research, information technology-business, and operations strategy development.
She has a B.Sc. in industrial mathematics and subsequently received a scholarship to study management science & operations research at Lancaster University. She is also a recipient of the World Bank scholarship for advanced mathematics in AUST
Dr Ngozi Onyia is a 1982 medical graduate of Nigeria’s Premier University, the University of Ibadan, a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians in Paediatrics and an experienced Primary Care Physician; with an MBA from the prestigious Lagos Business School of the Pan African University (now Pan Atlantic University), Lagos and a Certificate of Travel Health by the International Society of Travel Medicine.
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