Hannah Ajakaiye is a Shifting Democracies Fellow at Global Press Journal based in Lagos, Nigeria. Previously, Hannah founded FactsMatterNG, a civic media organization dedicated to enhancing media literacy and countering misinformation in Nigeria.

Hannah has been a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. During her time at Stanford, she focused on developing innovative strategies to address the spread of disinformation on encrypted platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram. Hannah also received the Nigerian Academy of Science’s Print Science Journalist of the Year in 2017. She holds a master’s degree in Media Practice for Development and Social Change from the University of Sussex, England.

Hannah continues to play a pivotal role in promoting truthful information dissemination in Nigeria.