Sonkita Conteh is the Co-Founder and Director of Namati, which works on land protection and environmental justice in Sierra Leone. Sonkita is a legal practitioner of the High Court and holds a master's degree in human rights and democratisation from the University of Pretoria. As a consultant for two years with the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions Africa Office in Ghana, he researched and reviewed law and policy on the right to water and sanitation in South Africa and Ghana. Sonkita drafted briefs, publications, training manuals and provided training to civil society organizations. With over 12 years' litigation experience, he is a member of Sierra Leone’s General Legal Council, the body that regulates the legal profession in the country since March 2016. He was recently appointed to the Sierra Leone Bar Association's Law Reports Committee to help produce new volumes of law reports and in 2017; he was selected for the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellowship.