Magenta Girls Initiative

Jennifer Montgomery is a Rotary Peace Fellow and global human rights advocate with over 20 years of experience in advocacy, program management, public administration, and strategic communications. She spent a decade as the Director of Human Trafficking Education and Outreach for the Kansas Attorney General’s Office and was a subject matter expert on human trafficking and Gender-Based Violence with the Attorney General Alliance Africa Partnership for Justice. She was recently selected for the prestigious Mukwege Foundation Roster of Specialists and Trainers supporting survivor-centered and holistic programs which aim to change the collective response to conflict-related sexual violence globally.

In 2021, she was awarded a competitive Rotary Peace Fellowship at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. The focus of her fellowship initiative was transforming conflict-based sexual violence through arts-based inquiry, differentiation and storytelling with women in extreme poverty. In response to her work with at-risk women and girls in Africa, she partnered with three Ugandan professional women to form Magenta Girls Initiative (MGI), an international NGO mobilizing community support for girls’ education and empowerment. MGI is dedicated to lifting vulnerable women and girls in Africa out of generational poverty through psychosocial support, education, and vocational skills training. Jennifer currently serves as President and CEO.

Jennifer holds a B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Kansas, an M.A. in Arts Education from the University of Florida, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation from Makerere University. Jennifer is a regular speaker at Rotary clubs, district conferences, and zone institutes across North America and Africa, and is a Rotary Positive Peace Activator for the North America and Caribbean Cohort.