James is a passionate advocate for the health of young people and women in Kenya. As National Team Coordinator for Resources Mobilization at the German Foundation for World Population, he leads the health and advocacy programs targeting the country’s young people and women and builds the operational capacity of civil society organizations to better access resources in support of family planning. … Read More
Mercy Kamau | Jhpiego
Mercy is a tireless advocate for increasing the uptake of family planning services in Kenya. She is a Community Mobilization Officer at Jhpiego, an affiliate of John Hopkins University. Under the Kenya Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, she offers technical support to implementing partners in designing promotional and advocacy strategies that lead to increased demand, access and use of high quality … Read More
Liam Sollis | Young Health Programme (YHP)
Liam is dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of young people through prevention of the most common non-communicable diseases (NCDs). He is a Programme Policy and Advocacy Manager at the Young Health Programme (YHP) where he leads policy, advocacy, and research work. He focuses on). He represents the YHP in external policy forums and also leads Plan UK’s public engagement … Read More
Kelsey Hundley
United States Kelsey is deeply committed to advancing the field of adolescent medicine. She has served as a NOARHP volunteer for two years and a Board Member at NOARHP for one year, where Kelsey helped the organization align the curriculum with CDC guidelines and create an assessment to better measure students’ learning. She is pursuing her MD at LSUHSC in … Read More
Michael Beyer
United States Michael is a passionate youth leader in public policy. At Louisiana Progress, he is responsible for producing communication materials and maintaining the organization’s social media presence during legislative hearings. In 2013 and 2014, Michael helped organize the Louisiana Queer Conference, and he interned with GLSEN in Washington, D.C. He would like to build a coalition of progressive faith … Read More
Christopher Cox, MPH
United States Christopher is the Senior Policy Advisor for Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09). He currently oversees the Energy and Commerce Committee portfolio that includes technology, telecommunications and health. In his role, he also coordinates the Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls, Congressional Caucus on Smart Cities and the Multicultural Media Caucus. He has executed a variety of briefings … Read More
Syed Ali Raza Rizvi
Pakistan Ali is a passionate young filmmaker who advocates for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Pakistan through his films and public campaigns. His first film, ‘Sapna’ showed a day in a trans person’s life in Karachi and has had an enormous local and global impact. Ali has volunteered since age 15 with Rahnuma Family Planning Association of Pakistan. He … Read More
Manuel Salvador Salas Flores
Manuel’s passion is to save lives and teach future generations the art of medicine. He is a doctor who specializes in intercultural surgery, and works at the University of the Autonomous Coast Regions, Nicaraguan Caribe. Manuel also volunteers at Adelante Mujer Foundation. He has six years’ experience teaching intercultural medicine with indigenous, afro-descendant, and mestizo students from the North Caribbean … Read More
OUR LEADERS
Rise Up’s network of visionary leaders and organizations are competitively selected for their vision, commitment, and potential to improve the lives of girls, youth and women. Rise Up leaders are influential and effective champions for improved laws, policies, programs, and funding in the areas of health, education, and equity. We enable these visionary leaders to expand their impact by providing … Read More
Lidieth del Carmen Alvarez Guzman
Lidieth is an active promoter of youth participation in their own leadership development as Principal of Phoenix Formation at Limon 2. She engages women to participate in organizational training and cooperatives for the wellbeing of their families as Program Administrator at Casa Verde. Lidieth is currently studying Psychology at UHISPAM.
