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Angom Jane Okwera

Angom Jane Okwera is the Coordinator for the Cross Border Network of Journalists and media houses from Uganda and South Sudan. She is also the station manager Speak FM, a women’s Radio station based in Gulu northern. SPEAK FM is affiliated to Forum for Women in Democracy, (FOWODE) Uganda.

EARLY LIFE; Jane Angom had a humble background growing up as a disciplined girl and this has made her excel academically and professional despite challenges she and her siblings faced. EDUCATION; Angom Jane Okwera received her postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management from Uganda Management institute in 2012. She received journalism training from The BBC World Service Trust, in 2010 and 2011.

She pursued a certificate course in Community Learning Programming from the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication in partnership with the common wealth of Learning in 2014 Jane pursued her bachelor’s degree in Education from Makerere University graduating in 2000.

CAREER Jane has used her experience in communication for development (C4D) practitioner and Community Learning Programming (CLP) enthusiast to change the face of the media in former war torn northern Uganda. Through the cross boarder program which Jane coordinates, she has been able to oversee the increase and improve news coverage of refugees and displaced persons in northern Uganda and South Sudan.

COVID 19. In a bid to safe guard her team of reporters covering Covid 19 and protect their families and her own children. Jane has embarked on lobbying for the provision of mobile reporting gadgets to allow her report from wherever they are yet in a more efficient way than before. She sees virtualization as the way to go in preventing spread of Covid 19 and she is redesigning her radio program to accommodate mobile reporting. AWARDS AND HONERS, Jane has been recognized by Refuges journalists in Uganda as one with a big heart for creating a platform through which they, as refugees can heard She is also an inspiration among women journalists in Uganda, hail for promoting professionalism and uplifting and recruiting more female journalists to penetrate in the male dominated field and strike balance.