Nkem Agunwa, Associate Director, Communications & Engagement

Nkem Agunwa is the Associate Director of Communications & Engagement, providing strategic leadership across the organisation’s communications, digital engagement, and public positioning. She leads efforts to strengthen WITNESS’ visibility, shape understanding of emerging issues at the intersection of technology and human rights, and translate the organisation’s expertise into greater influence, engagement, and impact. Her work spans media strategy, storytelling, institutional communications, and strengthening WITNESS’ connections between frontline realities and systems-level change.

Before this role, Nkem served as the Africa Senior Program Manager at WITNESS, where she supported activists, journalists, advocates, and legal experts across the continent in harnessing the power of video and technology in defense of human rights. She led efforts to elevate the role and influence of community-based human rights defenders and journalists in resisting delegitimisation, asserting truthful narratives, and advancing justice.

Before joining WITNESS, Nkem worked with Amnesty International Nigeria, where she developed and led campaigns addressing human rights issues and supported movement leaders, activists, and human rights defenders to strengthen documentation and reporting practices in pursuit of accountability.

Nkem holds a Master’s degree in Mass Communication from Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom.