Camila Barungi

Camilla Barungi is a Ugandan fashion/runway model who was born in 1981. She is also a New York-based fashion model, social innovator and cultural and business strategist.

Work experience
As a strategist, Barungi leverages innovation and cultural bridges to foster job creation and the growth of Africa and the African diaspora's innovation ecosystems in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

As a university student in Silicon Valley, Barungi was discovered by a fashion agent and has since worked as an international model for luxury designers.

She worked with a number of initiatives focused on meeting the UN SDGs, in particular as they relate to fashion. At the 2015 United Nations NGO Conference she curated and moderated a panel on sustainable fashion and global development.

On 27 August 2015, she addressed the United Nations on including Sustainable Fashion in their implementation of the SDGs as part of the proposal for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In 2019, she spoke at a similar event organized at the United Nations by the permanent mission of Sweden to the UN.

She is head of women's affairs for the Uganda Tennis Association.

Innovations
Barungi launched her first entrepreneurial venture in 2008 working with women's co-ops in East Africa producing sustainable ingredients to supply the global beauty industry. She has since scaled her social enterprise as a founder of Alliance 4 Development (A4D) a global advisory incubator accelerating innovation ecosystems at the intersection of sustainable fashion, emerging technologies, impact film and smart manufacturing.

Philanthropy
Barungi also devotes time and donates her strategic advisory services to drive diversity and inclusion for underserved communities. She serves as a board member for Geeks Rule; a provider of STEM education to underserved students, the Nyaka Aids Orphan Project serving 650 students and as co-chair for ADAPT Community Network's Santa Project Party for over a decade, a provider of cutting-edge programs and services for people living with disabilities in the United States.

Education background
Barungi studied biochemistry at San Jose State University.