Queer Feminist leadership, Mental Health, LGBTIQ issues, Data Story telling and Human Rights.

Eric is the Executive Director of Lifeline Youth Empowerment Center. Eric is a queer feminist, journalist, and digital development enthusiast who believes in mainstreaming cross-cutting issues like wellness, youth, the environment, gender, and disability for meaningful engagement and equity. Eric's determination to fight for LGBTQ rights stems from his experiences growing up queer in Uganda as well as persecution from both state and non-state actors, including arbitrary detention and forced anal examinations, and he is further inspired by the tenacity of LGBTIQ movement leaders who have demonstrated that everyone has the right to exist as humans and access SRHR services without discrimination, even in the most homophobic environments. They co-developed the KuchuCare App that connects queer people in Uganda directly to friendly SRHR services.

Eric is a data enthusiastic with skills from the Data4Change Sankeys Fellowship was able to develop data driven interventions to uplift marginalized queer persons in Uganda. Eric is also is interested in the intersectionality of climate change, gender, ageing and sexuality and their impact of access to SRHR services within the LGBTIQ community in Uganda. To stay up to date with Eric’s Work please follow them on Twitter @EricNdawulaGrif