Advisory Board
Meet Our Advisors
Our Advisory Board is comprised of dedicated professionals with diverse expertise and a shared commitment to excellence. Each member brings a wealth of experience in their respective fields, guiding our organization with strategic vision and leadership. Together, they ensure that we remain focused on our mission and uphold our values, driving sustainable growth and innovation. Learn more about our board members and their individual contributions to our success.
Carina Van Wyk
Carina van Wyk is head of education and training at Africa Check, the continent's first independent fact-checking organisation. Having worked as a journalist, content developer, sub-editor and trainer, she has two decades of experience in the fields of media and communications. She holds a master's degree in journalism and media studies from Wits University in Johannesburg, as part of which she completed a research project on the impact of independent fact-checking on journalism practice in South Africa. Carina has extensive knowledge of the media and information landscape, and has managed and conducted training for thousands of people, including journalists, students, fact-checkers and communicators across Africa..
Mpindi Abaas
Mpindi Abaas is the CEO of the Media Challenge Initiative (MCI), a Ugandan based organisation building the next generation of journalists in Uganda. Mpindi believes that good journalism can make the world a better place through the stories journalists tell and how they tell them. Under MCI, Mpindi oversees the MCI Media Hub, MCI Radio and Solutions Now Africa, platforms that are amplifying media innovations and using solutions journalism to challenge negative narratives about Africa. Mpindi's story has been published in the Huffington post, CNN African Voices and in 2018 his work was put on spotlight by President Barack Obama in his #Mandela 100 lecture in South Africa. Mpindi is a 2024 Elevate Prize Winner, a 2023 African Visionary Fellow, a 2018 Obama Leader, a 2018 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur and a Young Emerging Leaders Program Fellow.
Sara Namusoga
Sara Namusoga–Kaale is currently a lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Communication at Makerere University. She holds a PhD in Cultural and Media Studies from the University of KwaZulu–Natal. She is the e-Learning Coordinator at the School of Languages, Literature and Communication. She is also the head, Editorial Committee of The Legacy, the Makerere University Alumni e-newsletter. She has also worked as online sub-editor at New Vision as well as a Hansard editor in the Pan-African and Ugandan parliaments. Her academic work focuses on digital media/communication and digital pedagogy. She is winding up research on multimedia storytelling for archiving COVID-19 experiences in Uganda, under the Andrew Mellon-funded Archives, Memory and Method from the Global South Project at Makerere University. Namusoga-Kaale is an alumna of the Study of the United States Institutes (SUSI) of Journalism and the Media 2015 cohort.
Caleb Okereke
Caleb Okereke is the Co-founder and Executive Editor of Minority Africa. He’s reported across Africa for Aljazeera, Foreign Policy, CNN, The Guardian, and VICE News and was previously a Heidi news correspondent. Caleb has spoken about inclusive and representative journalism at Oxford and Stanford Universities and at the International Journalism Festival. In May 2024, he graduated with a Masters in Communication from the University of Utah. Currently, he's a Journalism PhD student at Northeastern University and a Doctoral Fellow at the Internet Democracy Initiative.
