About the Speaker
Maria
Sarungi Tsehai
Tanzanian human rights activist and journalist
Maria Sarungi Tsehai is a prominent Tanzanian human rights activist and journalist. She is the founder of pro-democracy movements Change Tanzania and Shangazi Power and the director of independent Mwanzo TV. She has faced threats, physical intimidation, and censorship for exposing and campaigning against the authoritarianism of Tanzania’s regime.