Founder & Executive Director Resume Example

A passionate and globally recognized change-maker with proven record in rallying communities around social transformative ideas in democracy development and human rights. Offering 6 years of hands on experience in empowering and mobilizing people led change for justice, accountability and good governance.

• Mobilized over 9 million people and Launched Zimbabwe's first mass Citizen's movement in 2016
• Listed by Foreign Policy Magazine U.S.A in the 100 top thinkers of 2016
• African person of the Year 2016 by Daily Maverick Newspaper (South Africa)
• Index on Censorship (UK) 2016 award nominee for work on freedom of expression in Zimbabwe
• CIVICUS Global alliance 2017 award nominee for individual activism
• 2018 Stanford University Fellow of Centre for Democracy Development & Rule of Law
• 2018 Swedish government's Per Anger Prize for outstanding democracy actors
• Selected as 2020 Yale University's Yale World Fellows program
• Selected for 2021 Regan-Fascell National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Fellowship
• Preparing to publish memoir of experiences of confronting dictators

• The Atlantic Council (USA)
• 2016 Key Note speaker at Human Rights Foundation's Oslo Freedom Forum Norway & Johannesburg 2017, 2018 & 2019
• Key note speaker at Geneva Summit For Human Rights and Democracy 2018 in Geneva
• Key note speaker at the Oxford Union, Oxford University (UK)
• 2018 Key note speaker at Yale Association for African Peace and Development conference
• 2018 Key note speaker at University of Capetown, African Leadership Program
• 2017 Speaker at Harvard University Human Rights Center,
• 2017 Speaker at Amherst University
• 2018 Key note speaker at 2018 Intergrity20 conference hosted at Griffith University, Brisbane Australia
• Key note speaker at University of Pennsylvania Africa Summit 2019

Mr. Evan Mawarire. Clergy and civil rights activist

Evan Mawarire is a Zimbabwean clergyman who founded #ThisFlag Citizen's Movement to challenge corruption, injustice and poverty in Zimbabwe. The movement's main objective is to empower citizens to hold government to account. Through viral videos and engagement sessions, the movement has organised multiple successful non-violent protests in response to unjust government policy. For his work, Mawarire was imprisoned and tortured in 2016, 2017 and 2019 and charged with treason facing 80 years in prison. His message of inspiring positive social change and national pride has resonated with diverse groups of citizens and attracted international attention. Evan has addressed audiences at The Atlantic Council, Yale University's Association for African Peace and Development, Harvard University's Human Rights Centre, The Oxford Union (UK), the Oslo Freedom Forum and the Geneva Summit for Human Rights & Democracy. Foreign Policy magazine named him among 100 global thinkers of 2016. The Daily Maverick Newspaper of South Africa named him 2016 African person of the year. Evan Mawarire is a nominee of the 2017 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression awards and the prestigious 2018 Swedish government's Per Anger Prize for democracy actors. He is a 2018 fellow of Stanford University's Centre for Democracy Development and the Rule of Law and was selected in 2020 for the prestigious Yale World Fellows program. Mawarire is also a 2021 Regan-Fascell Fellow hosted by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Evan has become a sought after speaker and trainer on matters of citizen driven change, democracy development and human rights.