The Eyala team drives the platforms mission, leading on strategy, content curation and creation, as well as community engagement. The team features a Content Strategist & English Content Curator, a French Content Curator, and a Team Coordinator. Their work is supported by the Founder, Advisors’ Circle and various consultants.
Meet The Team
JAMA JACK | Content Strategist, English Content Curator
Jama is a feminist writer and Communications specialist from The Gambia. She is a human rights activist, with more than 15 years of practical experience in advocacy and community engagement. Apart from her day job, she runs her blog Linguere, produces and co-hosts the Musso Podcast, and is steadily building her portfolio in filmmaking, with writer & producer credits in three films over the past 4 years.
Feminist life motto: “Our feminist identity is not qualified with ‘Ifs’, ‘Buts’, or ‘Howevers’. We are Feminists. Full stop.” - African Feminist Charter
CHANCELINE MEVOWANOU | French Content Curator
Chanceline is a feminist activist from Benin who specializes in building and strengthening feminist movements as a strategy for a more just and equitable world. She is committed to creating and facilitating spaces where girls and young women learn to understand the causes of inequalities, how they are affected, and find resources to begin dismantling gender oppressions. She uses feminist popular education, communication, advocacy, and digital as means and approaches in her work.
Feminist life motto: “You have to act as if it was possible to radically transform the world and you have to do it all the time.” - Angela Davis
Chilufya Nchito | Team Coordinator
Chilufya is a development professional from Zambia interested in gender equality and women’s rights. As a feminist, she is passionate about amplifying the voices of African feminists, allowing them to tell their own stories, and creating spaces for them. Her dream is for the everyday African woman to have a voice to speak about her life and the will and the support to fight if her voice is not enough. That women will partner together to fight an ever changing and growing capitalist society that has the odds stacked against them.
Feminist life motto: “We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.” - bell hooks
Marie Kéïta | Freelance Translator
Marie is a freelance translator from Côte d’Ivoire. She grew up and still lives in Paris. She has a Master’s degree in legal and financial translation from la Sorbonne-Nouvelle, where she also teaches Economic Translation to future translators. In her free time, she enjoys, reading (several books at the same time while adding more to her already huge to be read pile), listening to podcasts, and spending time with her friends.
Feminist motto: “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde