Williams Kwame Rashidi

Rashidi is the organizational director of Queer Alliance Nigeria. Trained as a science laboratory technologist at Accra Polytechnic, he left the field science to pursue his passion for change regarding discriminatory laws and policies around sexual orientation and gender identity. His advocacy has seen him address challenge, and address government on the constitutionality of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act since 2008. Williams Kwame Rashidi has participated in numerous professional trainings on leadership, project management and human rights. His lifelong objective is to work within the field of public policies, especially those that affect human rights of marginalized and vulnerable populations. ‎In the future, Rashidi has his eyes on an ambassadorial post.