Rosebell Kagumire
Rosebell Kagumire is a Ugandan journalist and activist. She is an editor for an African feminist blog and writes for international media like The Guardian and Al Jazeera.
Background and education
Rosebell Kagumire grew up in Bushenyi, a village in Southwestern Uganda.Kagumire went to Bwerayangi Girls Secondary School for her secondary school education. She then studied Mass Communication at Makerere University and graduated in 2005. She obtained a certificate in Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century from the Harvard Kennedy School and a certificate in Nonviolent Conflict at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
Kagumire holds a Master of Arts in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies from the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. While there she was taught by Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian journalist.
Career
Rosebell Kagumire worked as a reporter for Daily Monitor, Uganda Radio Network and NTV Uganda. While at NTV Uganda, she was in filming, script writing and news story production. Rosebell was a Uganda contributor for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. She was the communications officer for Women's Link Worldwide.Rosebell Kagumire is the curator and editor of African Feminism- AF, an online platform that documents experiences of African women. She also serves as the Collaborator Global Reporting Centre and also as a freelance editor and writer whose work appears in international media such as The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Quartz. Rosebell Kagumire is Volunteering Author for the Global Voices. She is a member of the advisory council of the Europe-based Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, a research, advocacy, and consulting organization dedicated to promoting feminist foreign policy across the globe.