Mireille Muhigwa

Mireille Muhigwa currently serves as a Gender Program Officer for SAMWAKI where she focuses on initiating peace building activities. She founded a project called Children Integration and Education Empowerment in 2013 and has been an interpreter and facilitator in women workshops and children outreach programs for the Walungu Community Development Trust. Mireille holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the Universite Officielle de Bukavu. Upon completion of the Washington Fellowship, she plans to create an NGO that focuses on the education and empowerment of vulnerable populations with an emphasis on women and children who are victims of sexual violence in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mireille was one of 100 Fellows competitively selected to participate in an 8-week internship in the United States following the Mandela Washington Fellowship academic institute. She interned at Global Integrity in August-September 2014.