Change Voices Paula Fray

In this fifth episode of season two, we're in conversation with public relations consultant, public speaker and WomeninTechZA co-founder Samantha Perry. Through the work of WomeninTechZA, Perry aims to bridge the gender diversity gap in the tech sector.

Working both as a journalist and PR professional in a consultancy and full-time capacity over the past 20 years, Perry has covered the ICT sector for the likes of Computing SA (editor), ComputerWeek, and Brainstorm magazine (editor). In her capacity as a PR professional and consultant, she has worked with listed and multinational organisations such as Striata, Google, Telkom, MTN and Dimension Data.

She currently serves as the Johannesburg Agency Lead for public relations and integrated marketing agency Irvine Partners.

We’d love to hear from you, tweet us @changevoices, find us on Instagram, connect with us on LinkedIn, and visit our website frayintermedia.com.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavor, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

In this fourth episode of season two, were in conversation with Gabriella Razanno, founder of OpenUp, a civic tech lab based in Cape Town. Razzano is a researcher and legal consultant on issues of transparency, open data, technology and law. She has contributed to the drafting of regional instruments (such as the African model law on access to information, the African declaration on internet rights and freedoms), and is drafting the SADC model law on the digital economy.

We’d love to hear from you, tweet us @changevoices, find us on Instagram, connect with us on LinkedIn, and visit our website frayintermedia.com.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

Change Voices is a production of frayintermedia
Produced by Zoe Naledi Neocosmos
Social Media and Graphics by Aphiwe Kunene
Editing by Desmond Latham and Zoe Naledi Neocosmos

In this third episode of the Change Voices series, host Paula Fray is in conversation with Congolese-born Huguette Diakabana, a global health practitioner whose expertise considers the practice of connecting people to life-saving technologies.

Diakabana is Co-Founder of the African Alliance of Digital Health Networks. She has deployed technology-based solutions in education, community development, and global health in over 20 countries throughout Africa. She currently works with organizations and governments to leverage data to enhance the quality of health services. She is also a New Voices Fellow with the Aspen Institute and Co-Chair of the WHO Digital Health Technical Advisory Group.

We’d love to hear from you, tweet us @changevoices, find us on Instagram, connect with us on LinkedIn, and visit our website frayintermedia.com.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

Our Change Voices guest this week is Dr Zamambo Mkhize, a lecturer in Gender Studies at the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. Having undertaken her Honours in Criminology and Master’s in Gender Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Zamambo also completed her PhD in Pennsylvania as a Fulbright scholar.

Author of “Polygyny and Gender” published in September 2021, her research focus includes African women in high-stakes degrees such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Zamambo founded the African STEMinist foundation which is dedicated to supporting, mentoring and advancing African women in STEM fields.

We’d love to hear from you, tweet us @changevoices, find us on Instagram, connect with us on LinkedIn, and visit our website frayintermedia.com.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

Change Voices is a production of frayintermedia
Produced by Zoe Naledi Neocosmos
Social Media and Graphics by Aphiwe Kunene
Editing by Desmond Latham and Zoe Naledi Neocosmos

Today is the launch of season 2! Our first guest is Chenai Chair, the Special Advisor on Africa Mradi Innovation at Mozilla Foundation. She is an expert on the intersection of digital technology and gender and currently supports the implementation of Common Voice African languages work by Mozilla - an open-source data set to support voices in technology intervention.

In this episode, we explore digital technology and the gender divide, privacy and intersectional feminism as well as what needs to be done in terms of policy in order to uphold digital rights.

We’d love to hear from you, tweet at us @changevoices, find us on Instagram, connect with us on LinkedIn, and visit our website frayintermedia.com.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

Host Paula Fray is still in Kampala, Uganda, and this week she is speaking about supporting transformational leadership with Rita Atukwasa.
Rita is executive director of the institute for social transformation where she led a transformative leadership process with Uganda’s market women. Rita has extensive experience with public policy analysis, gender budgeting, mainstreaming, legislative analysis and drafting amongst others.
We explored how her organisation helped market women develop an
APP though the process of transformational leadership.