A lady with a big smile as she is commonly described by her peers, LYDIA TUSIIME is a passionate young lady and peace activist working as a program officer at Creations Forum Afrika since 2018 where she leads and supports program designs and implementation in peacebuilding, civic and social-cultural rights among others. She previously worked at the Foundation for Rural and Urban Advancement FURA on areas of financial inclusion and youth skills development under the MasterCard Foundation-funded project dubbed Youth in Action.
Professionally Lydia holds a bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Makerere University and has undertaken a number of short training courses in project planning and management, monitoring and evaluation, financial literacy, etc.