Johanssen Obanda

Johanssen Obanda

Kisumu County, Kenya
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I am passionate about building an inclusive research ecosystem where researchers across…

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  • It all starts with us

    My colleagues at Jabulani Youths 4 Transformation having a great time afer a food and clothing drive. It's not so easy…

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Activity

Experience

Education

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Open Life Science Graphic

    Mentor

    Open Life Science

    - Present 2 years 11 months

    Science and Technology

    Working closely with participants to help further their Open Science skills and become ambassadors for Open Science practice, training and education in their communities.

  • Sub Saharan International Model United Nations Graphic

    Committee Secretary - Sochum Committee

    Sub Saharan International Model United Nations

    - 8 months

    Education

    Responsible for communication between the Dias and the Senior Secretariat, and maintaining order during the committee session.

  • Sub Saharan International Model United Nations Graphic

    Committee Secretary - Security Council Commitee

    Sub Saharan International Model United Nations

    - 9 months

    Education

    Responsible for research, writing committee background guides; facilitating writing of working papers and the committee resolution paper, and maintaining order during the committee session.

  • SeedScience Graphic

    Volunteer

    SeedScience

    - 3 months

    Science and Technology

    Volunteered to teach 15 teachers from 6 Primary schools on science practical lessons set up which are cheaper and more sustainable for rural schools.

    Volunteered to teach more interesting and diverse experiments that would be fun to pupils and that they can relate to in day to day life, to increase their interest in science.

  • The Rahul Kotak Foundation Graphic

    Volunteer

    The Rahul Kotak Foundation

    - 1 month

    Education

    Receiving, sorting and distributing library books for a local school library in the suburbs of Kisumu.

  • The 50 Percent Graphic

    Listening Session Mentor

    The 50 Percent

    - 1 year

    Civil Rights and Social Action

    Managing, mentoring, and building meaningful relationships with a regional team of African associates and planning and hosting local listening sessions around the sustainable development goals.

    These listening sessions aim to collect the concerns, fears, and excitement of a diverse young generation and share this information with policymakers at the local, regional, national, and international levels, corporate partners so they can better serve a generation of consumers and, maybe most…

    Managing, mentoring, and building meaningful relationships with a regional team of African associates and planning and hosting local listening sessions around the sustainable development goals.

    These listening sessions aim to collect the concerns, fears, and excitement of a diverse young generation and share this information with policymakers at the local, regional, national, and international levels, corporate partners so they can better serve a generation of consumers and, maybe most importantly, back with the youth participants so they know they are not alone.

Courses

  • Social Impact Measurement by Acumen

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Honors & Awards

  • The Changemakers Everywhere Academy Alumni

    The Changemakers Everywhere Academy

    The Changemakers Everywhere Academy is an intensive online learning journey where high-caliber social entrepreneurs creating these better systems for good governance will learn powerful strategies for scaling their social impact and become part of a global community of movement builders.

  • Ashoka Visionary Program - Visionary

    Ashoka Visionary Program

    The Ashoka Visionary Program is a part-time executive program for decision-makers in the private and the public sector dealing with social innovations as well as social entrepreneurs. It enables participants to gain the skills needed to master both entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial challenges, to generate social impact and access to a global community of changemakers.

  • RSA Fellow

    The Royal Society for Arts

    Fellows are committed to inspiring better ways of thinking, acting and delivering change. An integral part of the RSA in creating a better future, Fellows champion new ideas, drive social change, deliver practical solutions and support the RSA mission.

Languages

  • French

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  • English

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  • Swahili

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  • Mandarin Chinese

    Limited working proficiency

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