IVCO 2022 Spotlight Series – Meet Our Featured Speakers
We are only 8 days ahead of IVCO 2022, and we would like to introduce you to the next group of international speakers we will have the pleasure of hosting in Senegal this year. Today, in our Spotlight Series we feature the following speakers:
- Samuel Turay, IAVE – GNVL Africa
- Vanessa Dickey, Peace Corps
- Mame Diarra Senghor, Oxfam-Québec
- Scott Beale, Peace Corps
- Moyosoluwa Oladayo, VSO
- Daniel Adugna, African Union Youth Volunteer Corps (AU-YVC)
Daniel Adugna, African Union Youth Volunteer Corps (AU-YVC)
Daniel Adugna is the Program Manager of the African Union Youth Volunteer Corps (AU-YVC) – a continental youth leadership program which works with young African professionals through volunteerism and exchange across Africa. He brings over ten years’ experience in continental program management and policy development working with the African Union Commission and other International Organizations. He brings on board program development, implementation and monitoring skills, policy development, international relations and youth development expertise combined with continental level perspectives.
Daniel Adugna holds a B.Sc. in Management Information System from the Munich University of Technology, Germany; Master’s in business administration (MBA) from the Lincoln University, USA (Extension, Ethiopia); and a second Masters in Development Finance from the Frankfurt Business School.
Daniel Adugna will speak at the OPENING CEREMONY on Monday, 17 October, 10-10:45AM
Samuel Turay, IAVE – GNVL Africa
Samuel Turay is a development planner and volunteer with more than 10 years of experience in community development, program development and management, project design, monitoring, evaluation and reporting, results-based management, strategic partnerships, research methods, database management, peace-building and conflict resolution. Samuel is a trained youth activist with great expertise in the areas of leadership, volunteering, emergency response, livelihoods development and governance and policy formulation.
He is the founder of Sierra Leone Association of Volunteers and also served as the national coordinator of the Volunteers Involving Organisations Network (VIONet). Samuel is also a member of the reference group of the African Union Continental Volunteer Linkage Platform. He is now the coordinator of IAVE – GNVL Africa.
Samuel Turay will speak at the INSIGHTS FROM VOLUNTEERS ON THE FUTURE OF VOLUNTEERING IN DEVELOPMENT session on Wednesday, 19 October, 1:30-2:30PM
Vanessa Dickey, Peace Corps
Vanessa served as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years in West Africa and has led and supported training, programming, medical and safety and security operations teams for the Peace Corps for more than eight years in Madagascar and Senegal. Over the course of that time, she oversaw the training and service of more than 800 Peace Corps volunteers.
She is currently leading pilot operations for Peace Corps’ Virtual Service, in which more than 450 virtual service pilot participants have been contributing to the work of host country partners in 44 countries.
Vanessa has a background in international development, program design and evaluation and public health, and has worked or volunteered in five countries in Asia and Africa. She is thrilled to be able to continue to serve the important mission of the Peace Corps as a staff member and through this new initiative that matches returned Peace Corps volunteers with short-term host country engagements.
Vanessa Dickey will speak at SESSION B – THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY IN VOLUNTEERISM on Tuesday, 18 October, 4-5PM
Mame Diarra Senghor, Oxfam-Québec
Mame Diarra Senghor holds a bachelor’s in journalism from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and is completing her master’s degree in international development and humanitarian aid management at Université Laval (Québec City). After four years of professional experience in different communication and marketing agencies in Montréal, she decided to put those newfound skills to better use and start working with NGOs based in her home country of Senegal.
Between 2019 and 2021, she worked as a social media manager for the C’est La Vie project, an entertainment education program produced by RAES NGO that broadcasts a soap opera focused on reproductive health and rights across nine countries in West Africa. Over those two years, she was able to implement a digital strategy as well as develop and launch health-related digital campaigns in West Africa in collaboration with Facebook/Meta’s Global Health Strategies team. In December 2021, she joined Oxfam-Québec as a volunteer and started working the West Africa regional platform. She is now in charge of adapting and improving the regional strategy for mobilisation and digital communication (alliances, activities, digital communication) linked to Oxfam’s regional strategy of influence in the region. Over the course of her life, Mame Diarra has lived in three continents and has been exposed to different cultures and realities.
Mame Diarra Senghor will speak at the INSIGHTS FROM VOLUNTEERS ON THE FUTURE OF VOLUNTEERING IN DEVELOPMENT session on Wednesday, 19 October, 1:30-2:30PM
Scott Beale, Peace Corps
Scott Beale is a lifelong champion for international volunteerism, youth leadership and social entrepreneurship. He is currently the Associate Director of the Peace Corps, in charge of all global operations and leading efforts to return volunteers to service after the pandemic as well as to reimagine service with the new strategic plan. Prior to the Peace Corps, Scott founded and led Atlas Corps, a leadership development program for the world’s best social change professionals. Sometimes called a “reverse Peace Corps,” Atlas Corps brings leaders from around the world to serve in the U.S. Over 15 years under Scott’s leadership, Atlas Corps has supported more than 1,000 individuals from 103 countries. The NonProfit Times twice named Scott one of the Top 50 Nonprofit CEOs in the U.S.
Previously, Scott worked with the State Department in India; led Ashoka’s Youth Venture; and served in the Clinton White House as the associate director of intergovernmental affairs. After volunteering in Mostar, Bosnia in 1996, Scott returned as a core supervisor for OSCE, organising the first-ever municipal elections. He also authored the Millennial Manifesto, a book on the politics and activism of the millennial generation. Scott has a BA from Georgetown University and an MPA from the University of Delaware. He serves on the board of AIESEC USA. He has lived in eight countries. Scott is a triathlete who enjoys racing with his family.
Scott Beale will speak at SESSION A – BEYOND NEW VOLUNTEER MODALITIES on Tuesday, 18 October, 9:30–10:30PM
Moyosoluwa Oladayo, VSO
Moyosoluwa Oladayo is an international development practitioner with over 10 years of work experience in the development, private and public sectors.
She currently works with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) as the global volunteering for development officer, where she provides technical advice to 18 VSO countries to support government processes and practices through the design of policies, frameworks and guidelines, and to promote volunteering for development. Her strength lies in project development, program facilitation, capacity-building and strategic management.
She is recognised and awarded for her influence and work in promoting volunteering and sustainable development. In 2022, she was recognized as one of the 100 most influential young people in Africa by Opportunities Hub, and one of the top 20 young women in sustainable development by Young Women in Sustainable Development. In 2021, she won the UNV Country Award Nigeria for the Volunteer’s Impact on the government-selected project category, and in 2020, the government department in charge of volunteering recognised her efforts toward promoting volunteering in Nigeria.
She graduated with honours in sociology and anthropology from the University of Abuja, Nigeria, where she was recognized as one of the best three students with outstanding performance in academics in 2010. She was also awarded the most outstanding female student in her class.