SPEAKER
Lynda Banja
Lynda Banja is a Governance lawyer, GBV-SRHR (Gender-Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) – Advocate, Social Entrepreneur, Global Mentor, Facilitator, Trainer and Consultant on the thematic areas of Gender and Corporate Law.
She is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and currently the Managing Partner of Banja & Co. Advocates.
Lynda serves on various boards and committees; Chair – Africa Women in Agribusiness Award, Vice Chair - Business & Human Rights Committee of the East Africa Law Society, Committee Member Disciplinary Committee of FIDA Federation of Women Lawyers (Kenya), Board member PIA & Hope for Her Global.
She is the Founder & Executive Director of Hold-my-Hands-Organization and Co-lead GBV & SRHR on the Africa Women Leadership Network.
Banja is a Teaching Human Rights Fellow; African Change Makers Fellow and World Pulse Ambassador & Changemaker.
Lynda is a member of Every Woman Treaty’s Special Projects and Speakers Bureau Committees and is a 2022 Indrani Fellow.