Lori Michau

Lori Michau is the Co-founder and Co-director of Raising Voices, a feminist non-profit organization based in Kampala, Uganda, working to prevent violence against women and children. Ms. Michau also spearheaded the creation of the Gender-based Violence Prevention Network, now coordinated by Raising Voices, which has over 800 members across Africa. She has extensive experience in community mobilization; has written numerous articles on violence prevention; and leads a team dedicated to infusing global violence against women prevention work with the transformational potential of solidarity, activism and technical rigor. She also developed SASA!, a comprehensive methodology currently used in more than 25 countries in Africa and beyond, that is among the few approaches with proven, community-level impact on preventing intimate partner violence against women and HIV risk. Ms. Michau received her M.A. in human rights from Makerere University in Uganda.