Chiedza Juru

About Me

Chiedza Juru is an education and youth development specialist, who holds a Master in Public Administration Degree from the Harvard Kennedy School. At the Kennedy School, Chiedza was the Co-Chair for the Africa Caucus, the Deputy Editor in Chief for the Africa Policy Journal and Sector Co-Chair for the Business and Government PIC's Public Private Partnerships. She served as Chief Operating Officer for Higherlife Foundation, a non-profit organisation focusing on Education in Africa. She was appointed by the Zimbabwe Minister of Youth as Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Youth Council Board, a government parastatal whose mandate is to advise government on the needs of youth. In this role she has been instrumental in ensuring the adoption of the revised National Youth Policy and the ongoing crafting of the Zimbabwe National Youth Act, a legal framework to enforce youth participation.

Chiedza is a Founding Trustee for two non-profits- which provide scholarship assistance to academically talented disadvantaged students. She is a 2021 Public Service Fellow of the Futurelect Academy, a cohort of young Africans who seek to become agents of change in their countries through public leadership. She is a member of the Apolitical Foundation New Voices Council, which supports a new generation of transformational citizen young politicians. Chiedza is a member of the USAID Education Finance Network which convenes diverse education stakeholders to direct non-state resources towards creating inclusive, high-quality education in low- and middle-income countries globally.