Dr. Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda is the Founder of Rozaria Memorial Trust, the organisation she found in memory of her late mother based in Murewa, Zimbabwe.

Dr. Gumbonzvanda is the Africa Union Goodwill Ambassador on Ending Child Marriages since 2014.

A Zimbabwean national, she is a trained human rights lawyer with extensive experience of work with girls and young women, as well as in conflict resolution and mediation. For almost 30 years, she has worked on issues of women and children’s human rights, especially violence against women, health and HIV and AIDS.

She has extensive work experience at the local, regional and international level. She served has World Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) General Secretary for almost 10 years, responsible for 120 countries and reaching 25 million women & girls.

She has extensive work with the UN where she was for a decade with UNICEF and UNIFEM (Now UN Women). She served as a member of the UN Commission on Accountability for Women and Children’s Health; and was a member of the WHO Director General Advisory Group on Ebola. She also served as a member of the UN Civil Society Advisory Group on Women, Peace and Security.

She served on many civil Boards including CIVICUS and Save the Children UK. She is the current Chair of Action Aid International. Nyaradzayi is also a member of the External Advisory Group to the Managing Director of the IMF. Nyaradzayi is member of the Steering Committee for the African Women Leaders Network as well as the Gender is My Agenda Campaign (GIMAC).

In Zimbabwe, she was among the founder member of the Women & Land Lobby Group, and the Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association. She is the Chair of the COVID19 Frontline Responders Group for the Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe. She is the Patron of The Former Students Association for Magaya Primary School, where she attained her primary education.

She loves poetry.  Tweet with her @vanyaradzayi