OutSummit One Day Conference Speakers
OutSummit – Pushing the Boundaries for Global LGBTIQ Activism one day conference is assembling a line up of speakers to represent all the letters of our community. Keep checking back regularly additions to the list.
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Keynote Speaker
KASHA JACQUELINE NABAGESERA, UGANDA
Kasha is a human rights activist from Kampala, Uganda with special interest in women’s and LGBTI rights. She is the founder of the only exclusive LGBT magazine on the continent. Kasha is a renowned international multi award winner receiving prestigious world human rights awards as the first LGBTI person to receive them. She is very passionate about security, migration and economic empowerment of women and LGBTI persons. She is currently using digital activism for advocacy and movement building.
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REVEREND MACDONALD SEMBEREKA, MALAWI
Rev. MacDonald is an ordained priest of the Anglican/Episcopal church of more than 20 years. He has among other things been a renowned human rights activist both at home and beyond, and an advocate of inclusion in both the church and society in general. He has also served in various capacities both in the church and civil society. He also served as an advisor to the former president Joyce Banda for NGO’s and civil society. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Global Interfaith Network for people of all sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.

RYAN V. SILVERIO, PHILIPINES
Ryan V. Silverio is the current Regional Coordinator of the ASEAN Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression (SOGIE) Caucus. He has been involved in LGBTIQ activism in the Philippines for more than a decade where he helped organized pride marches in Metro Manila and conducted human rights education with youth activists. He has worked with human rights organizations such as the Philippine Human Rights Information Center, Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and Child Rights Coalition Asia. His activism extends into the academe in his capacity as Senior Lecturer at the Department of International Studies of Miriam College in the Philippines where he teaches courses on gender, human rights and social research. He has co-authored publications focusing on children’s right to participation in ASEAN, human rights education, and migration and ICT. Ryan holds a Master of Arts in Human Rights degree obtained from Mahidol University, Thailand.

MORGAN CARPENTER, AUSTRALIA
Morgan Carpenter is a social and technology policy researcher, president of Organization Intersex International (OII) Australia and founder of a new Intersex Day pilot project. Morgan also works as a technologies consultant for the National LGBTI Health Alliance, and a consultant to the Foundation for Young Australians for its Safe Schools Coalition Australia project. Morgan has played an active role in systemic advocacy on federal anti-discrimination legislation and a Senate committee inquiry into involuntary or coerced sterilisation. Morgan participated in the first intersex expert meeting held by the UN in 2015, and moderated a presentation on intersex to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Morgan is an advisor to the first international Intersex Human Rights Fund, managed by the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, and has acted as an expert to UNESCO, the Asia-Pacific Forum and other bodies.
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Published on November 25, 2015 | OutRight Action International an LGBT human rights organization

