Furaha Joy Sekai Saungweme is a lawyer and the founder of Africa End Sexual Harassment Initiative (AESHI), a law-reform and social-movement project creating regional dialogue on sexual harassment and calling for the development of a regional model law on sexual harassment for Africa. She is a fellow of Women Leaders for the World, a project of the California-based How Women Lead, which promotes women in leadership. She sits on the editorial board of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law and is part of the Berkeley COVID-19 Equality Law Working Group. Furaha has written widely on democracy, gender and socio-economic rights in Africa, presenting research papers and discussions at academic institutions in Africa, Europe and the USA.