Amb.Agnes Oswaha
Board Chair
Ambassador Agnes Oswaha is the Director of Human Rights and East African Community at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in Juba, Republic of South Sudan. She is a member of the South Sudan Border Committee, focusing on all the international boundaries of South Sudan with exclusion of Sudan.
Amb. Oswaha served as the Government of South Sudan First Acting Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and also worked at the Government of Southern Sudan Mission to the United States in Washington, DC as the Director of Culture, Community and Consular Affairs. She was very instrumental in the transformation of the Southern Sudan Mission into the Government of South Sudan Embassy in Washington. She has done a lot of work with South Sudanese US-diaspora, especially during the Sudan 2010 Elections and the Southern Sudan Referendum 2011.
Amb. Oswaha has a long experience in advocacy and community organizing. She has co-founded several non-profit organizations in the United States. She currently serves as the Chairperson of the South Sudan Women’s Empowerment Network and in the Secretariat of the South Sudan Women for Peace Initiative.
Amb. Oswaha is currently pursuing graduate degree at the George Mason University, School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution. She holds a Masters in Social Work and Social Justice; two Bachelors of Arts in Law, Society and Justice and in Political Science from the University of Washington, Seattle. She also attended Al-Nileen University, Faculty of Law in Khartoum and Ahlia University in Omdurman, Department of Translation in Omdurman.
She serves as the Publicity Ambassador for the Heavenly Culture, World Peace, and Restoration of Light since 2016 under the leadership of Man Hee Lee, HWPL Peace Advocate. She is a recipient of Women of Inspiration Award from the Seattle Storm Women’s National Basketball Association in 2009 among other distinguished awards.