Mwende Katwiwa
New Orleans, LA
Mwende Katwiwa is a 2014 graduate of Tulane University with a dual degree in Political Economy (International Perspective Track) and Africa & African Diaspora Studies. She currently works at Women With A Vision, a community-based non-profit whose main areas of focus include Sex Worker Rights, Drug Policy Reform, HIV Positive Women’s Advocacy, and Reproductive Justice outreach.
Katwiwa has published articles in The Grio, For Harriet, the Feminist Majority Foundation's Campus Leadership Network and is currently the co-editor for Winnovating, an online platform founded to promote the work of women doing innovative work in their communities. She is also co-chair and a founding member of the New Orleans chapter of the Black Youth Project 100 (the first BYP100 Southern Chapter), a founding committee member and host of the New Orleans Youth Open Mic (NOYOM), a board member for Patois: The New Orleans' International Human Rights Film Festival and a member of Wildseeds: The New Orleans Octavia Butler Emergent Strategy Collective.