Richard is a member of the core Outbox Hub data team and also a Senior Technical Lead at Medic. Prior to that, he worked for Google in Dublin, Ireland as a data engineer on the spam team, as well as at Google in Nairobi, Kenya, where he helped launch the first Google offices in Africa.
Richard holds a degree in Computer science from Makerere University and has lived and worked in Uganda, Nigeria and Ghana.
Henry is the founding National Coordinator of Alliance for Campaign Finance Monitoring (ACFIM) – a consortium of CSOs that banded together to foster transparency and accountability in financing of political and electoral processes in Uganda. He specialises in
governance; accountability; project design, evaluation and reviews. His 18 year career has seen him work with the New Vision Printing and Publishing Corporation and WBS Television following which he turned to civil society activism.
He holds an MA in Public Administration and Management, a BA degree in Political Science and Public Administration, and a myriad of post graduate certificates in varied disciplines.
Lydia is a digital/data journalist who currently writes for Quartz, an international business news site, is the programme officer for data journalism & research at the African Centre for Media Excellence and the data curator for www.data.ug, the home of Uganda’s open data. She also writes the eclectic blog: Of Course I Have Issues. She holds a masters degree in data journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
David Kaiza is a Ugandan writer and journalist, who joined the media in 1994. David has worked for a number of years at the former Uganda Television and for an extensive period at The East African newspaper, as a reporter at large, but also as an arts and literary critic.He has worked in Kenya as literary editor for Kwani, as well as editor of the online arts magazine, African colours. He is currently involved in arts and cultural development.
Nantume is an artist and curator based in Uganda. She creates art works that trigger controversy and curate exhibitions based on themes and concepts that are meant to disrupt existing paradigms about a wide range of subjects, but which also encourage alternative ways of perception.
She is a co-director of both Kampala Art Auction Ltd and UNDER GROUND
Contemporary Art Space. Some of the exhibitions she has curated include the Eroticism and Intimacy II at the 2016 FNB Johannesburg Art Fair, Zikunta (Gales of Humans) by Wasswa Donald currently showing at Under Ground Contemporary Art; Heart of Darkness, a photography exhibition by Congolese photographer Christian Tundula; Cast a Light on Prejudice, a photography exhibition by Papa Shabani; and Together We Can, an installation by Helen Nabukenya.
Nantume co-curated Eroticism and Intimacy I: Faces, Places and Paths, an exhibition that explored the debate around gender and sexuality and how they relate to the body.