Obioma Okonkwo is a human rights lawyer and she is passionate about creating an enabling and safer environment for digital rights, freedom of expression, media freedom and freedom of information.
She is a Legal Officer at Media Rights Agenda (MRA), a leading non-governmental organization in Nigeria, in this role, Obioma has spearheaded litigation, advocacy campaigns, engagement meetings, research interventions and capacity-building workshops for the protection and promotion of digital rights, freedom of expression, media freedom and freedom of information in Nigeria and globally.
She is an alumnus of Media Defence West Africa Litigation Surgery, 2019 and also contributed to the output document developed during the multi-stakeholder consultation meeting on Africa’s cyber capacity building at African School for Internet Governance Forum, in 2022.