title: Sophie Kyagulanyi
text: # Sophie Kyagulanyi
  
  Sophie Kyagulanyi is a human rights activist and lawyer who works for Oxfam in Uganda.
  
  ## Education
  
  Kyagulanyi received a Bachelor of Law, at Makerere University where she studied from 1998 to 2001.
  
  ## Career
  
  Kyagulanyi worked as Democratic Governance Coordinator for Action Aid Uganda and also Women in Leadership Programme Manager at Forum for Women in Democracy. She worked as a Legal Research and Advocacy Coordinator with the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative from 2001 to 2005. Kyagulanyi is currently the Governance and Accountability Manager at Oxfam in Uganda. She was a founding member of DefendDefenders and became chairperson in 2019.
  
  Kyagulanyi has several articles and citations. In June 2020, she wrote a blog post titled COVID19 - A reminder why access to water is a human right.
  
  