Loveness Mudzuru is the Programs Consultant at Rozaria Memorial Trust. She leads the organization’s strategic programming on research, advocacy, and girls’ empowerment, with a strong emphasis on inclusive, community-driven approaches.

At RMT, Loveness is responsible for designing and facilitating intergenerational advocacy initiatives, supporting young people especially from rural communities and marginalized backgrounds to engage meaningfully in national and continental policy processes. She plays a key role in coordinating RMT’s engagement with the African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls, ensuring that girls and young women are actively contributing to the shaping of regional commitments and frameworks.

Her areas of expertise include survivor-led advocacy, inclusive research, and policy engagement on child marriage, gender-based violence, arts-based methods, and mental health. She has remarkable strength in public presentations and community engagement. At Rozaria Memorial Trust she has produced research that centers girls, including those with disabilities as knowledge creators, and she has led the development of programming tools such as the Feminist Vision for Ending Child Marriage. Loveness has also co-authored research exploring the link between child marriage and mental health, and continues to advocate for evidence-based, rights-affirming programming through knowledge dissemination and stakeholder engagement.

Before taking on her current role, Loveness has contributed to two notable laws in Zimbabwe with one of them being a lead applicant in the landmark Mudzuru v Minister of Justice & Others case at the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe, which led to the outlawing of child marriage. Her advocacy and policy work has influenced legal and systemic change both nationally and across the region.

Loveness speaks English and Shona. She is a member of the Global Survivor Council, a Women of the Speak Out Fellow, a recipient of the European Union’s Sakharov Fellowship for human rights defenders, a member of the Pan African Alliance on Ending Child Marriage Young People Network and a founder of Passionate Circles Trust.

Loveness believes, girls and young women are not just beneficiaries of change but key drivers. Without survivor voices and leadership, programming has a critical gap. Evidence shows that when survivors shape the agenda, interventions become more effective, inclusive, and transformative.