Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera (also known as Jacqueline Kasha) (born 1980) is a Ugandan LGBT rights activist and the founder and executive director of the LGBT rights organization Freedom & Roam Uganda (FARUG). She received the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders in 2011 and the Right Livelihood Award in 2015. Education Nabagesera attended several schools after being continually suspended and expelled due to her sexual orientation, as it was discovered that she wrote love letters to other girls; she attended Gayaza Junior School, Maryhill High School, Mariam High School, and Namasagali College. At Nkumba University, she studied accounting and earned a bachelor's degree in business administration, and in 2004 she took a degree course in information technology and a certificate in marketing from the New Vision Group in Kampala. In 2005, she enrolled at Human Rights Education Associates, a human rights education and global training center for distance learners based in Massachusetts, USA. In 2006, she completed a certificate in journalism at the Johannesburg Media School, where she trained students from African countries such as Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Uganda in activism. In 2008, she was certified to "train the trainers" by the Frontline Human Rights Defenders in Dublin, Ireland. Activism In 1999, she campaigned to end homophobia in Uganda, where homosexuality is illegal. In 2010, Ugandan newspaper Rolling Stone published names and photos of people believed to be homosexual, with the headline "Hang Them". It listed Nabagesera and her colleague David Kato, both of whom sued the tabloid and set a benchmark for human rights in Uganda. Nabagesera explained it set a precedence as an attempt to protect “privacy and the safety we all have against incitements to violence”. Kato was later killed following the legal battle with the publication. Nabagasera has continued the fight for gay rights in Uganda. Under FARUG, she has fought to decriminalize homosexuality in Uganda by circumventing the Ugandan anti-homosexuality bill. She refers to it as a Nuremberg law that mandates stiff sentences ranging from prison sentences to the death penalty, which also rules that citizens who do not report homosexuals to the authorities can face up to three years in jail. In 2011, Nabagesera was said to be the only founding member of the LGBT movement from the 90s still living in Uganda. She spoke at the 2017 WorldPride summit in Madrid, and led a discussion about LGBTQIA+ in Africa with Najma