Aruna Kallon
Sierra Leone

Aruna Kallon has over three years’ experience volunteering as a gender and civil rights campaigner, and is dedicated to promoting equal opportunities for persons with disabilities. He is currently editor and communications consultant at the Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law-Sierra Leone (CARL-SL), where he helps develop the organization’s communication strategy, and advocates objectives aimed at promoting judicial accountability and increased access to justice for victims of sexual and gender-based violence. Aruna holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors in English, and a Bachelor of Law with honors, both from Fourah Bay College University of Sierra Leone, where he is also a part-time lecturer of English. Aruna plans to use the experience of the Mandela Washington Fellowship to start an initiative that helps remove norms inimical to the development of youth potentials, such as forced early marriage, child sexual abuse, and harmful cultural practices, such as female genital mutilation.