Douglas Dubois Sebamala is an Advocacy Artist, Playwright/Director, Multimedia Journalist and Creative Producer who prides greatly in works that empower marginalized communities. He is the founding Artistic & Creative Director at Sebamala Arts a digital performance arts company that creates equality and Advocacy programming, Social change Film/Television and critical theater. He also serves as Managing Director at National Queer Theater where on top of running day to day operations of the nonprofit theater, he supports their annual Criminal Queerness Festival which produces international plays by artists from countries that criminalize LGBTQ storytelling. His advocacy work challenge social inequalities, racial injustice, gender based violence and all forms of discrimination, oppression and suppression of free expression. Devoting to empowerment, public relations and communication for development, Dubois has previously served Arts and community based non-profits in East Africa, with a record of excellence at Silent Voices Uganda and Youth Arts Movement Uganda. His media and journalism career spans print at Nation Media’s Daily Monitor, radio broadcast at Wizarts Media (Uganda) and magazine publication at Art Africa Magazine (South Africa). He co-founded ELESmode Productions which offers digital training and employment to young and aspiring LGBTQ artists and youth from marginalized communities in Uganda. He researched and edited a publication on Mental Health of Queer Communities, Invisible Scars (2019), supported by Voice.Global. Offering creative support to Rainbow Riots Uganda, he developed Rainbow Riots Radio which now serves as an international free expression podcast for LGBTQI+ People around the world. Douglas is a graduate of Journalism and Communication from Makerere University, a Member of; Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, International AIDS Society, Missouri Playwrights Workshop, World Bank’s Youth Transforming Africa and also supports the World Bank Art Program. Among his creative writing awards is #Reaching16 by United Nations Development Program’s Youth Lead (2021), and World Bank #Blog4Dev (2018). Dubois has international collaborative experience in developing, staging, managing productions and performance across Uganda, Kenya, parts of Central Africa, South Africa, Sweden, UK and the United States.