Speakers

Namukabo Werungah is a multi-award-winning journalist with nearly 15 years of experience in multimedia news production. She is currently a Staff Reporter and Editor for Social and Breaking News at The New Humanitarian. Before joining TNH, she worked for the BBC for five years, where she contributed in creating niche Programmes including the first fact-checking television news programme, and a COVID-19 special programme at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. As the BBC Storytelling Ambassador for Africa, she mentored and trained young people in storytelling techniques. Previously, she worked at Nation Media Group, where, in her final year, she covered Kenya's general election in one of the country's political hotspots, Nyanza. Namukabo is Kenya's Journalist of the Year, 2023. She is the inaugural winner of the Merck More Than a Mother Media TV Awards. She has studied Journalism and International Relations (Peace and conflict) at the United States International University.