Hilda Tadria

Born in Kigezi, South West Uganda, Dr. Hilda Mary Kabushenga Tadria is Social Anthropologist, a renowned passionate feminist and gender-equality/social justice advocate and activist who finally retired from institutional based service in April 2020 when she exited the role of Founding Executive Director of the Mentoring and Empowerment Program for Young Women (MEMPROW). Hilda is also a co-founder and Board member of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), a fundraising and grant making organisation that supports African women’s work. In 1985, while still at Makerere, she founded Action for Development, an organisation that is still vibrant and active in protection of women’s rights in Uganda.