Memory Tapela Banda is an optimistic and visionary youth leader who is dedicated to changing the face of leadership, equality and discrimination in Zambia and beyond. She is an education activist, a women’s youth peace and security advocate and a human rights defender. She is the founder of the Safeguarding Alliance of Children and Women’s Rights and the Zambian Disability Matters Organization. She currently working with the Southern Africa Youth Forum as a SADC Youth Parliamentarian. She is the Country Representative and Director of Social Gender Protection at the Africa Union for Persons with Disabilities and the task force lead at Theirworld under the Gender and Education Task Team (AUPA). Memory is an award-winning humanitarian, peace builder and human rights defender.

Participant in: October 2024 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes