User talk:M.khisa

Moses Khisa was born on December 7, 1980 in the district of Mbale in eastern Uganda. He went to Bubulo Primary School, Bubulo Secondary School, Sir Tito Winyi Secondary School, Nabumali High School. In 2001, he joined Makerere University from where he obtained an honours degree in Political Science and Philosophy in 2004. He proceeded to pursue a Master's degree in Human Rights at the same University which he completed in 2006.

Moses Khisa worked as freelance jounalist with the then The Monitor Newspaper and now called Daily Monitor. He worked with Uganda Media Women's Association as a project officer and as a talkshow host with the organisation's Mama FM radio station. In 2006, he moved to Centre for Basic Research (CBR), Uganda's oldest and most reputable independent, private research centre engaged in primary research for new knwoledge production. For one and a half years, Khisa coordinated the centre's postgraduate training program, a pilot intiative to tranform the centre into an Institute for Advanced Studies and Research. The centre will offer a wide range of postgraduate study programs while continuing with its research work.

Khisa now works as a Program Officer with The Association for the Advancement of Higher Education and Development (AHEAD) based in Kampala. AHEAD is the Uganda International Partner Organization for the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program. AHEAD administers the selection of 16 exceptional individuals every year who go on to pursue Master's and PhD studies with full funding from Ford Foundation.