{"id":3374,"date":"2022-11-30T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theacademy.co.ug\/conference-2022\/?page_id=3374"},"modified":"2022-11-30T11:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T08:19:26","slug":"benjamin-rukwengye","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theacademy.co.ug\/conference-2022\/benjamin-rukwengye\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Rukwengye"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"science_fair_image\">\n<div id=\"home-image1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3269\" src=\"https:\/\/theacademy.co.ug\/conference-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/HIC-banner1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"450\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"home-image2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3270\" src=\"https:\/\/theacademy.co.ug\/conference-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/HIC-banner2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"home-image3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3271\" src=\"https:\/\/theacademy.co.ug\/conference-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/HIC-banner3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mid-section-new-top-text\">\n<h1>Speaker<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"speaker_pro\">\n<div id=\"speaker_pro_img\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/theacademy.co.ug\/conference-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Benjamin-Rukwengye.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3375\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"speaker_pro_name\">Benjamin Rukwengye<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"mid-section-new-wrap-ab\">\n<p>Benjamin Rukwengye is the founder and CEO of Boundless Minds, a mentorship social enterprise focusing on Soft-Skilling as a pathway to accelerate school-to-work transition for students.<\/p>\n<p>He is the founding chairman of 40 Days Over 40 Smiles Foundation. a leading local philanthropy movement; and worked as Head of Recruitment at Teach for Uganda; and Research Associate at the African Centre for Media Excellence.<\/p>\n<p>He is a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur; a KAS Youth4Policy Fellow; and a Young and Emerging Leaders Project Fellow. He is a Columnist with the Daily Monitor; and has been named by the New Vision, among the Top 40 under 40.<\/p>\n<p>His work enhances opportunities for complementary learning, mentorship and entry-level work &#8211; across the education<br \/>\nspectrum. <\/p>\n<p>He holds a B.A. in Mass Communication and M.A. International Relations, from Makerere University.<\/p>\n<p>He has passion and expertise in career development training; public policy and research on education, youth engagement, social justice and related development issues.<\/p>\n<p>He is also, a hiker and long-distance running wannabe.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Benjamin Rukwengye Benjamin Rukwengye is the founder and CEO of Boundless Minds, a mentorship social enterprise focusing on Soft-Skilling as a pathway to accelerate school-to-work transition for students. He is the founding chairman of 40 Days Over 40 Smiles Foundation. a leading local philanthropy movement; and worked as Head of Recruitment at Teach for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theacademy.co.ug\/conference-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theacademy.co.ug\/conference-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theacademy.co.ug\/conference-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theacademy.co.ug\/conference-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theacademy.co.ug\/conference-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theacademy.co.ug\/conference-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/theacademy.co.ug\/conference-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3374\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theacademy.co.ug\/conference-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}