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Stella Atyang (  born 24th dec 1981) is a Ugandan legislator and politician. she is the district woman representative for Moroto District. she subscribes to the National Resistance movement NRM, a political party in Uganda under the chairmanship of re-elected president of Uganda HE Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

Atyang became a member of parliament after the death of the then MP Hon Logiel Annie. she was elected unopposed after winning the Nrm flag bearer elections of 2017. in 2021, she was re-elected in the same office

EDUCATION BACKGROUND
Ayang started schooling at Moroto Municipal Primary School where she did her primary leaving examinations (PLE) in 1995. she then joined Kangole Girls secondary school for her ordinary level education and did her Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) in 1999.

For her Advanced level education, Atyang attended Highway College Makerere where she did her Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education in 2001.

In 2003, she graduated with a diploma in Human resource Management from the Institute of management science and technology, and in 2013, she added another diploma in Microfinance and community economic development from Uganda martyrs University. she later graduated with a bachelors degree in Microfinance and Community economic development from Uganda Martyrs University in 2015.

CAREER
Atyang worked as an administrative and Financial Manager at Karamoja Indigenous and Modern Health Project from 2010-2017. From 2003-2010 she was a Field Office Administrator at Karamoja Agro-Pastoral Development Programme and has been a member of parliament of Uganda since 2017

She is a member of the Uganda Women Parliamentary Association (UWOPA)

CONTROVERSY
In 2020 during the the Covid 19 Pandemic, Ugandan Parliamentarians received twenty million shillings to help their communities. Atyang and her other colleagues in parliament decided to take the money back to the treasury instead of donating it to their respective districts which angered a section of their electorate.