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2024 World Fellows Sokny Onn and Tarek Mouganie will share their work in championing human rights through the arts and sports.

Sokny is a passionate advocate for disability inclusion, serving as Country Director of Epic Arts, a UK-registered NGO in Cambodia, and as an advisor to the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts. In her Epic Arts role, she leads a program that empowers individuals with disabilities through arts, including inclusive education, community outreach, and social enterprise, with the aim to create an inclusive, valued, and discrimination-free environment for people with disabilities. Her experiences as a woman with disabilities drive her determination and passion as a leader in promoting social inclusion and serving the disabled community in Cambodia and beyond.

Tarek is committed to entrepreneurship and the creative industries as a means of enabling social and economic development. He is the creator of Front/Back, a pan-African social venture that nurtures and promotes musicians and artists from Africa and its diaspora and he sits on the board of 1-54, the largest fair dedicated to contemporary African art. He is also the co-founder of the Ghana Triathlon Federation, having served as a national athlete and placing top 10 in a number of World Championships and a 2022 Archbishop Tutu Fellow.