WorldPride Washington, D.C. Human Rights Conference 2025

Star Rugori is the Executive Director of MOLI, the leading advocacy and peer-to-peer movement-building LGBT organization in Central and Eastern Francophone Africa. For the last eight years, he has expanded his experience to bolstering nascent organizations’ capacities and initiating collaborative and community-led initiatives that uphold human rights and dignity. He is a specialist in formulating innovative strategies for organizations led by and supporting sexual and gender minorities and understands their objectives and needs.
Star has been serving the Egides - Alliance Internationale Francophone pour l'Égalité et les Diversités Board of Directors since July 2019, where he plays a leading part in increasing resources to Francophone LGBT movement internationally. He has a bachelor's degree in political economy from the University of Burundi and served as a Human Rights Advocate Fellow at Columbia University in 2017.