Phyllis Indiatsi Omido- East African Erin Brockovich,

Phyllis Omido: Known as the "East African Erin Brockovich," she won the Right Livelihood Award in 2023, widely known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize." She received the honor for her fierce environmental activism, famously leading a successful legal and community battle against a toxic lead-smelting plant that was poisoning a local community in Mombasa, kENYA.