Agnes Igoye's guest appearances

Agnes Igoye

Change Voices

Empowered Human Academy

Lola Wright

Jedidiah Jenkins

David Malki

Christian Picciolini

Sisonke Msimang

Vickie Bhatia

Alexis Robertson

Hailey Thomas

Jim Jacoby

Jake Nickell

Katherine Gehl

Michael Forsberg

Shireen Motara

Quratulain Fatima

Misan Rewane

OwlTail

Today’s guest is the effervescent, resilient, and powerful Agnes Igoye. Agnes is Uganda’s Deputy National Coordinator for the prevention of human trafficking and is a Labour Migration Expert at the Intergovernmental Authority on Development. She’s also a Senior New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute and teaches an online child protection course at Harvard University. Agnes has both lived through tremendous hardship and lives with contagious joy. At age 14, Agnes fled from the Lord’s Resistance Army when they raided her village. After a narrow escape, she endured the long journey that eventually led her to a camp for internally displaced people. Agnes’s past has carved a deep empathy and determination inside her, which she’s used as fuel for her impressive career path. Agnes was a Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the University of Minnesota specializing in Human Trafficking Prevention &amp; Policy, and she studied forced migration at the University of Oxford. She also has her master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. Throughout this conversation we discuss nurturing the good in others, how our environments shape us, and finding purpose amidst challenges. Through her work as a mentor at the Clinton Global Initiative, Agnes is actively sharing her wisdom with the next generation and we’re honored she said yes to sharing her story here. Full show notes, downloadables, and links are also available at empoweredhumanacademy.com/34 Keep the conversation going... Table Question: Who’s someone who saw and nurtured the good in you before you saw it in yourself? Journal Prompt: If the sky’s not even the limit, write out a list of dreams you’d dream for yourself. Action Step: Brainstorm a tangible way to love yourself this week, then do it. View the printable worksheet on Google Docs  Further exploration:  Follow Agnes on Facebook  This is a production of Lightward, Inc.

Today’s guest is the effervescent, resilient, and powerful Agnes Igoye. Agnes is Uganda’s Deputy National Coordinator for the prevention of human trafficking and is a Labour Migration Expert at the Intergovernmental Authority on Development. She’s also a Senior New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute and teaches an online child protection course at Harvard University. Agnes has both lived through tremendous hardship and lives with contagious joy. At age 14, Agnes fled from the Lord’s Resistance Army when they raided her village. After a narrow escape, she endured the long journey that eventually led her to a camp for internally displaced people. Agnes’s past has carved a deep empathy and determination inside her, which she’s used as fuel for her impressive career path. Agnes was a Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the University of Minnesota specializing in Human Trafficking Prevention &amp; Policy, and she studied forced migration at the University of Oxford. She also has her master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. Throughout this conversation we discuss nurturing the good in others, how our environments shape us, and finding purpose amidst challenges. Through her work as a mentor at the Clinton Global Initiative, Agnes is actively sharing her wisdom with the next generation and we’re honored she said yes to sharing her story here. Full show notes, downloadables, and links are also available at <a href="https://empoweredhumanacademy.com/34" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">empoweredhumanacademy.com/34</a> Keep the conversation going... Table Question: Who’s someone who saw and nurtured the good in you before you saw it in yourself? Journal Prompt: If the sky’s not even the limit, write out a list of dreams you’d dream for yourself. Action Step: Brainstorm a tangible way to love yourself this week, then do it. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/18NsYig2clbXboYr-LXnbz9Fxv8SinNNAf-5sV6Q9TpU/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">View the printable worksheet on Google Docs</a> Further exploration:  Follow Agnes on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/agnes.igoye/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> This is a production of <a href="https://lightward.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Lightward, Inc</a>.

Agnes Igoye: The Sky's Not Even The Limit 

Our Change Voices guest this week is the award-winning Agnes Igoye who is Uganda’s deputy national coordinator for the prevention of trafficking in persons and heads up Uganda’s Immigration Training Academy. She is also a 2018 Aspen New Voices Fellow. Agnes escaped human traffickers at age 14 when the Lord’s Resistance Army raided her village. Since then, she’s built a centre for human-trafficking survivors, trained over 2,000 law enforcement officials to counter human trafficking, and fundraised for and delivered almost 100 000 textbooks to educate vulnerable children. Not surprisingly, she has been named as one of New African Magazine’s 100 most influential Africans and is the winner of the 2016 Diane von Furstenberg International Award, University of Minnesota’s Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals, and she made the 2017 Clinton Global Initiative University Alumni Honour Roll.She met our host, Paula Fray in Kampala and spoke about challenging cultural perceptions and the influence of her father in bringing up feminist daughters. She also shares her story about the Lord’s Resistance Army, human trafficking and how she got inspired to build a rehabilitation centre for women survivors of human trafficking. Please be warned, some of these issues might be difficult to listen to. You can find more information about the work we do and the Change Voices podcast on our website, frayintermedia.com, or on our social media platforms @frayintermedia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, where our frayintermedia teams involved in the production of this podcast post regular updates and share the lessons as we go along.If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

Our Change Voices guest this week is the award-winning Agnes Igoye who is Uganda’s deputy national coordinator for the prevention of trafficking in persons and heads up Uganda’s Immigration Training Academy. She is also a 2018 Aspen New Voices Fellow. Agnes escaped human traffickers at age 14 when the Lord’s Resistance Army raided her village. Since then, she’s built a centre for human-trafficking survivors, trained over 2,000 law enforcement officials to counter human trafficking, and fundraised for and delivered almost 100 000 textbooks to educate vulnerable children. Not surprisingly, she has been named as one of New African Magazine’s 100 most influential Africans and is the winner of the 2016 Diane von Furstenberg International Award, University of Minnesota’s Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals, and she made the 2017 Clinton Global Initiative University Alumni Honour Roll. She met our host, Paula Fray in Kampala and spoke about challenging cultural perceptions and the influence of her father in bringing up feminist daughters. She also shares her story about the Lord’s Resistance Army, human trafficking and how she got inspired to build a rehabilitation centre for women survivors of human trafficking. Please be warned, some of these issues might be difficult to listen to. You can find more information about the work we do and the Change Voices podcast on our website, <a href="http://frayintermedia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">frayintermedia.com</a>, or on our social media platforms @frayintermedia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, where our frayintermedia teams involved in the production of this podcast post regular updates and share the lessons as we go along. If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

Episode 18 - Agnes Igoye talks about combating human trafficking