About The Speaker
Christa Awuor Odinga-Svanteson
Christa Awuor Odinga-Svanteson is the Project Manager for Telling the Real Story, an information campaign facilitated by UNHCR that engages with refugees from the Horn of Africa, Nigeria and MENA and their diaspora in Europe. The project collaborates closely with diaspora led organisations and entrepreneurs in Europe who address various social issues that newly arrived refugees encounter in Europe and provision of information and livelihood initiatives in countries of origin and asylum. Christa previously worked in one of the non-profits […]
Christa Awuor Odinga-Svanteson is the Project Manager for Telling the Real Story, an information campaign facilitated by UNHCR that engages with refugees from the Horn of Africa, Nigeria and MENA and their diaspora in Europe. The project collaborates closely with diaspora led organisations and entrepreneurs in Europe who address various social issues that newly arrived refugees encounter in Europe and provision of information and livelihood initiatives in countries of origin and asylum.
Christa previously worked in one of the non-profits in Sweden that pioneered and promoted social entrepreneurship and has several years of business development in Sub-Saharan Africa helping international companies expand in the continent.