Mary-Jean Nleya

Mary-Jean is a writer and contributes written pieces to various media platforms. She was a co-panelist for Declarations, a podcast from the Centre of Governance and Human Rights at the University of Cambridge that explores issues on human rights. Mary-Jean spent four years engaged in work that intersects with socio-legal and development issues; and in 2017, she executive-produced a documentary on access to affordable internet for students in African public schools, with a particular case-study on Malawi. T

he documentary explored the use of Information Communication Technologies to better improve education outcomes in indigent communities. Mary-Jean is the 2019 Open Internet for Democracy fellow, an associate fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society and a One Young World Ambassador.