Julie Mariama Sesay was AdvocAid’s Freetown Programme Manager. Julie is a passionate advocate for women’s rights who has previously worked for Concern Worldwide. Julie joined our team in 2016 and up until 2020 drove forward our social work, our outreach to sex workers and the production of the Police Case series

Adelaide Dworzak, born in Sierra Leone had her early education at home and continued it in Ireland and then in England, becoming a Barrister before returning home to practice law. She taught English, French and law in the West Indies for a few years. She also worked as a Prosecutor in the ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) before becoming a Judge in SIerra Leone. She was married in Dakar, Senegal where she had three children. She is now retired.

Makmid is a human rights leader, researcher and development communications practitioner, with almost twenty years’ experience working with national and international development and human rights organisations in Africa and the United Kingdom. His experience is mainly in West Africa, some parts of Europe and the United Kingdom, and selected countries in Southeast Asia. He lives and works in Accra, Ghana. 

Prior to joining the Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund, Makmid worked at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London as Deputy Director of Global Issues and Head of the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Team; interim Country Director for Amnesty International Nigeria and West Africa Researcher. He has also worked with international organisations such as Oxfam GB and Concern Worldwide. He holds an MSc with distinction in development communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).