Cinderella Anena
Uganda

Cinderella Anena has three years’ experience in researching democracy, governance, sexual and reproductive health, and projects development. She currently works as a program assistant at the Uganda office of the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University (US) where she supports research, programming, and communications through gender transformative interventions including the Gender Roles, Equality and Transformation (GREAT) Project. Cinderella’s passion for women’s rights is drawn from Irene Gleeson, an Australian philanthropist whose foundation supports over 6,000 war-affected people in Northern Uganda and who Cinderella supported volunteering for the fundraising drive to complete Gleeson’s last project, a women’s hospital. She holds a first class Bachelors’ degree in Social Work and Social Administration from Makerere University and co-founded the Young Acholi Girls Initiative (YAGI), a social movement mentoring young women on alternative and transformative leadership. Upon completion of the Fellowship, she plans to advocate for popularization of Women’s’ Agenda and Gender Equality.