Dennis Munyingwa is a Community Environmental Legal Officer (CELO) representing Natural Justice’s Southern Africa hub in Namibia.
He supports communities in the Northeast of Namibia, such as N#a Jaqna and Nyae Nyae Conservancies or Bwabwata National Park, on environmental issues, participating in public participation processes, and helps them to find remedies through government administrative and regulatory institutions.
Born and raised in a small village of Tuvu-//gana in the Bwabwata National Park, Dennis has been involved in social and environmental justice activism for the past five years, mainly working alongside the marginalized or indigenous communities of Namibia.
He is a current youth leader for Indigenous Minorities Youth Organisation of Namibia, and has background in Human Resources Management and Administration, having worked for Namibia Wildlife Resorts as Trainee Human Capital Officer and a Data Collector for University of Cologne in cooperation with Namibia Water Corporation.
He has also, worked with the Khwe Custodian Committee as an Administrator, assisted the Legal Assistance Centre as a Field Researcher/data collector and was trained by Natural Justice as a paralegal. He is passionate about environmental justice and upholding human rights, and hopes to amplify grassroots community voices at national, continental and eventually global levels, to influence policies and legal instruments that recognises and addresses critical issues on the ground.
