Muleya Mwananyanda, Director, Communications and Influencing

Muleya Mwananyanda is the Director of Communications and Influencing at UNAIDS, where she leads strategic communications, advocacy and partnerships in support of the global AIDS response. Prior to this role, she served as Director of Influencing and Partnerships at UNAIDS.

A national of Zambia, Muleya has spent most of her career working on issues of human rights, poverty, inequality, gender and livelihoods. Before joining UNAIDS, she served as Acting Regional Director for East and Southern Africa at Amnesty International, where she led major human rights campaigns and contributed to the organization’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion strategy.

Muleya has also worked as a human rights lawyer, served as a legal researcher at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, led gender, peace and livelihoods work in Africa for Oxfam International, and earlier in her career worked as a journalist.