Soraya Odia

Soraya Odia Lukusa is a project assistant in the political pillar. She previously worked as a media librarian at the Institut Français de Kinshasa, where she helped organize the Fête du Livre de Kinshasa for two years. She was an intern at the European Union Delegation in the DRC in the Politics, Press and Information section. Soraya also worked as a community manager consultant for the Makutano business network. Online, she has occasionally expressed herself as a blogger at Habari RDC and Mondoblog RFI, as well as on her personal blog Majuscaux, sharing her thoughts on various topics. One of her texts on gender-based violence won her the Voix des Femmes prize awarded by Habari RDC. 

Her commitment to culture is reflected in her initiation and management of various projects in the Congolese creative and cultural sector.

Soraya holds a degree in Project Management from the Université Catholique du Congo.