Omowumi Ogunrotimi

Biography

Omowumi Ogunrotimi is a Feminist lawyer and Executive Lead at Gender Mobile Initiative with over a decade of experience in accelerating systems-change to transform structures and practices that enable violence against women and girls and preserve gender disparities. She has led key advocacies, and her work at Gender Mobile Initiative facilitated the state-level adoption of sexual harassment policy frameworks by 17 subnational governments and over 100 higher education institutions. She leads the co-creation of approaches to combat gender-based corruption through policy influencing, preventative education, technology integration, and social norms programming.

She is an Ashoka Fellow and recipient of awards such as the Commonwealth Award, JCI ten outstanding young persons of Nigeria, World Justice Forum Honoree, YALI award on leadership and Human Rights, Attorney General award on gender equality among others.