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Cleo Kambugu

East Africa

Cleo Kambugu
Cleo Kambugu is a Ugandan Transgender woman and an ardent advocate for social justice and equality for marginalise populaces with a bias to sex workers, sexual and gender minorities including intersex and gender non conforming communities. Her previous work revolved around advocating for the recognition of transgender peoples and their health care needs, and this saw her among other doing a documentary "The Pearl of Africa" a story about love and acceptance, and a chronicle of her navigation of access to health care and questioning of gender as a social construct and about identities in general. This and several others of her engagement with media and otherwise saw her exodus from Uganda for her security. She is currently working with UHAI EASHRI, an Eastern African based activist fund. She initially joined as Programmes Assistant: Grant Making and Capacity Support and is currently the Grant Administrator tasked with back door grants management. For her this is an opportunity for her amplify her voice and effort as to have her activism impact wider communities.