{"id":857,"date":"2026-08-17T10:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lira.wordcamp.org\/2026\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=857"},"modified":"2026-08-17T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:26:35","slug":"omara-r-ronnie","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/lira.wordcamp.org\/2026\/speaker\/omara-r-ronnie\/","title":{"rendered":"Omara R. Ronnie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-base-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">He is a YALI RLC East Africa alumnus, Cohort 35 of Public Management Track, a PANOS Eastern Africa &#8211; Human Rights fellow and a member of the Internet Society of Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-base-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">Ronnie is the co-founder of Mid North Youth Empowerment Agency (MN-YEA) &#8211; a youth focused organization working towards improving lives of Orphans, Youth, Adolescent Girls, and Young Women through life skills training, promoting healthy living, Education &amp; ICT in Apac District. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-base-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">Worked as as Assistant Lecturer at UMCAT School of Journalism as well as Management Institute of Science &amp; Technology specialising in Journalism and Mass Communication. Omara is a seasoned journalist who has published numerous Articles online; produced multiple National Award winning Radio Features and designed online campaigns in collaboration with ICT for Advocacy Community of Practice in Uganda, as well as training them in non-violent online advocacy. In a Nutshell: A Media Trainer, Journalist, Administrator &amp; ICT4Advocacy guru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is a YALI RLC East Africa alumnus, Cohort 35 of Public Management Track, a PANOS Eastern Africa &#8211; Human Rights fellow and a member of the Internet Society of Uganda. Ronnie is the co-founder of Mid North Youth Empowerment Agency (MN-YEA) &#8211; a youth focused organization working towards improving lives of Orphans, Youth, Adolescent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22041834,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wcpt_user_name":"","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-857","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/956304990452d298b6e8b3fe59fcd4875efa2f3707064a0236dbaaab936816df?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/956304990452d298b6e8b3fe59fcd4875efa2f3707064a0236dbaaab936816df?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/956304990452d298b6e8b3fe59fcd4875efa2f3707064a0236dbaaab936816df?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/956304990452d298b6e8b3fe59fcd4875efa2f3707064a0236dbaaab936816df?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/956304990452d298b6e8b3fe59fcd4875efa2f3707064a0236dbaaab936816df?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/956304990452d298b6e8b3fe59fcd4875efa2f3707064a0236dbaaab936816df?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lira.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lira.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lira.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lira.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22041834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lira.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lira.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/lira.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/857\/revisions\/859"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lira.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/881?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lira.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lira.wordcamp.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}