Fredrick Mugira

Fredrick Mugira is a National Geographic Storytelling Explorer, Pulitzer center grantee, Bertha Challenge Fellow, Journalist and Development Communication Specialist. He founded Water Journalists Africa, the largest network of journalists reporting on water in the African continent. He cofounded InfoNile, a cross-border group of geojournalists with a mission to uncover critical stories on water issues in the Nile River Basin through data-based multimedia storytelling. He founded the Big Gorilla story project that aims at increasing conservation coverage of the endangered mountain gorillas, and amplifying local voices in the international debate about mountain Gorillas protection.