Bridget Mensah

Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Ghana

Bridget Mensah is a Ghanaian communications strategist, writer and editor with more than 10 years’ experience across journalism, media, corporate communications and gender-focused advocacy. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Gender Lens Africa.

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About the author

She is the founding Corporate Affairs Manager at Ghana Digital Centres Ltd., where she built the organisation’s communications function, and a communications consultant with Equality Now, writing and shaping media and editorial content on women’s rights, gender-based violence, child marriage and access to justice. She writes the weekly Her Space column for the Business and Financial Times and serves as General Secretary of the Network of Women in Broadcasting Ghana.

She holds a Master’s degree in Development Communication, a Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations and a Diploma in Communication Studies from the Ghana Institute of Journalism. At Gender Lens Africa she is building a newsroom that asks not only what happened, but whose experience, voice and interests are missing from the story.