Catherine Anite

Anite is a lawyer and the Founding Director of the Freedom of Expression Hub. She has previously worked in senior positions both domestically and regionally advancing the right to expression and media, through capacity building initiatives, public interest litigation in domestic and regional courts, legal and policy analysis and advocacy campaigns. ​ ​ She has served as a senior judge at the International media law moot court at the University of Oxford, and received a Mandela Washington Fellowship from the U.S. State Department in 2014, where she studied civic leadership at the University of Delaware and attended President Obama’s summit for young African leaders in Washington D.C.​