Our Team
A global network
committed to building
youth leadership
Our guiding principles
We believe in the power of radio, podcasts, and audio storytelling, and see it as our mission to use these mediums to create opportunities for youth dialogue, leadership, and citizenship in communities across Africa.
Since its founding as the Children’s Radio Foundation by Elizabeth Sachs in 2006, we have created a network of more than 1700 trained youth radio reporters across five countries in Africa, who broadcast on local and national radio stations and produce podcasts. With our main office in Cape Town, Children’s Radio Foundation is a registered non-profit organization in South Africa, The United States, and The United Kingdom.
The team
Amélie Guyot-Staal
Monitoring and Evaluation Manager
Bob Yala
Country Manager, DRC & Host of Radio Workshop en français
Brighton Kaoma
Global Youth Ambassador
Clémence Petit-Perrot
Director of Strategy
Dhashen Moodley
Senior Podcast Producer
Farhana Jacobs
Curriculum Coordinator
Jérémie Mupepe
Project Manager, DRC
Jessica Jackel
Country Manager, Tanzania
Jo Jackson
Managing Podcast Producer
Lesedi Mogoatlhe
Host & Editorial Director
Martha O’Donovan
Program Director
Mary-Ann Nobele
Program Coordinator
Mike Rahfaldt
Executive Director
Mutetelenu Kalama
Country Manager, Zambia
Naomi Grewan
Communications Manager & Associate Producer
Patou Izai Kep’na
Country Coordinator, DRC
Sammy Ramodike
Program Associate
Shaban Ramadhani Maganga
Country Manager, Tanzania
Shahid Achilles
Finance Manager
Thando Ntoi
Finance Director
Waly Faye
Learnings & Innovation Director
Wardi Adams
Office Administrator
Yumna Martin
Chair
Linda Barnett
US Chair
Emmanuelle Parr
UK Chair
Radio Workshop Board of Directors
Brighton Kaoma
Michal Rahfaldt
Nina Callaghan
Thando Ntoi
Tshepo Tshabalala
Yumna Martin
Friends of Radio Workshop, U.S.
Adé Adigun
Bill Siemering
Charlotte Bannister-Parker
Dana DiPrima
Elizabeth Sachs
Emmanuelle Parr
Gillian Rose
Linda Barnett
Michal Rahfaldt
Nina Callaghan
Pamela Michaelcheck
Peter Mason
Radio Workshop, UK
Adé Adigun
Elise Ormerod
Emmanuelle Parr
Sam Bonham
Elizabeth Sachs
Founder and Chair, Emerita