OLUWA, Enitan Sophie is a 2025 Mandela Washington Fellow. A 2023 Rotary International Positive Peace Activator. A 2022 Mastercard Foundation Young Impact Associate. Enitan is a Champion for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a special interest in Goals Number 1, 3, 5, 10 and 17.
An astute volunteer with over a decade experience with non-profit organizations focused on providing assistance for the needy especially in areas of youth development, peer education, mentoring vulnerable children, girls and people with disabilities. Enitan is a Google and Lagos Business School Certified Digital Business Manager; She is a graduate of English with a special interest in Literature.
Enitan is also passionate about Adolescent Reproductive Health and Gender Rights. On a quest to fulfill a passion in gender rights advocacy; policy and regulation alongside reproductive health, she studied Law as a second degree to complement her advocacy for issues relating to sustainable development, human rights, and social well-being.
Enitan is a member of many professional Associations including, the Nigerian Bar Association, International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Nigeria, Young Lawyers Forum, Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators U.K (CIArb) and more. She is the founder www.natineee.org Natineee Empowerment for Sustainable Impact Initiative (NESII) a non-profit organization providing empowerment and development services through Advocacy for Sexual Reproductive Health, Gender and Disability Rights.
At NESII, Enitan currently leads the team to work with organizations, championing inclusion with her advocacy for gender and disability rights. She works with a team community of volunteers to provide voluntary services ranging from teaching and mentoring high school students on reproductive health issues and career choices. Enitan leads the team at NESII, to develop high-quality, relevant global advocacy and training tools and resources around disability rights and appropriate communication and interaction language for Persons With Disabilities leads advocacy. Under her leadership, NESII has reached 9,972 young people across 20 communities and, with HSSN Africa, birthed the GirlPower Programme addressing gender-based violence and disability rights. As technical partners on the GirlPower Project, NESII is currently running a one-year mentorship for 300 girls at Ideal and Obele High Schools, Lagos, through inter-generational dialogues and mentorship sessions. Enitan works at the intersection of adolescent health, safeguarding and digital rights.