About the Founder
With a first-hand lived experience as an African woman, Nakuya is conversant with the expectations, demands, limitations and stereotypes that come with that, which she has consistently questioned and challenged while navigating the consequences that come with that, and celebrating the liberties that come from choosing to own one’s life and its narrative, to the extent possible.
As an African woman, she is committed to reaching for her own fuller human experience beyond the stereotypical societal prescriptions, impositions and limitations, while contributing to efforts that inspire, encourage, and support other African women and girls to live fuller lives.
“My feet are planted on earth, in the here and now, and it’s my belief that we have this one life trip here that is not refundable or repeatable. I choose to contribute my efforts towards making the experience of this one life trip more just, more equitable, more dignified, more liveable, more enjoyable, more fulfilling, and healthier for me and other African women and girls,” says Nakuya.
Empowering with Expertise & Experience
Nakuya is a Medical Doctor, trained at Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda, and a Public Health Specialist with a Master’s of Science in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work focuses on policy, programming, communications and community engagement for the improvement of women’s health, prevention of Non-Communicable diseases, and the promotion of health and wellbeing. She has also formerly worked as a Wellbeing Coach and Consultant as well as a Publisher of a health magazine, Health Harvest. Nakuya regularly writes and speaks on preventive and healthy lifestyles, mental health and self-empowerment.
In her final term in medical school, in May-August 2002, Nakuya participated in her country’s national beauty pageant and emerged Miss Uganda 2002/2003 right in the middle of her final year exam period. She went on to successfully serve her term while doing her medical internship before proceeding into her medical career.
In 2021, Nakuya self-published her first book, Choose to Live Happily Even After, that shared 9 lessons for African single mothers on resiliently emerging from the end of a marriage and/or relationship, re-centering themselves in their lives, and optimistically navigating their new journey forward.
Nakuya is a mother of 3 daughters, whom she is nurturing into confident, self-loving, self-honouring citizens of this world. When not serving in her public health work or RAW, Nakuya takes time to enjoy some music and dance, spend time in nature, read, write, explore poetry, photograph what she loves, and do some travelling and adventuring when the opportunity arises.
