Pepe (He/Him) is a community organiser, feminist, environmentalist and counsellor who is personally connected to the population he serves in Uganda, the East African region and beyond. He is a trans man living openly in Uganda and serves as the Director of Programs at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and the founding president of SMUG Europe. Pepe holds a Certificate in Community Counselling, is a Democracy Fellow of 2015 NED Reagan-Fascell and 2018 Columbia University Human Rights Advocacy Program. He is also the recipient of the 2012 Global Citizen Award from the Clinton Global Initiative, the Hero of Year Award from Stonewall-UK in 2014 and in 2015 he received the GLAAD award for “Outstanding Talk show Episode” for his appearance on the John Oliver Last Week Tonight show.