Moud Goba is a UK-based LGBTIQ+ human rights activist who has worked with several organisations to support gay refuges and asylum seekers. Originally from Harare, Zimbabwe, Moud fled to the UK under Robert Mugabe’s regime, which persecuted homosexuals. On being granted asylum after two years, she set up an organisation called Gay Afrika to support and connect LGBTQI Africans. Moud is one of the founding members of UK Black Pride and she is the current Chair of their Board of Trustees.
Moud currently works as a National Director for Micro Rainbow, the leading organisations in the UK supporting LGBTQI migrants. She leads the organisation programmes at national level: their safe housing work which provides 30,000 bed-nights a year to homeless LGBTQI asylum seekers and their social inclusion and employability schemes. More recently Moud has managed the integration process of LGBTQI people who arrived to the UK from Afghanistan. Moud was recently named as one of the BBC 100 women for 2022 and was the recipient of an Attitude Pride Award, Kaleidoscope lifetime achievement award and a Diva Magazine inspirational role model award. Moud was honoured by being asked to take part in the parade for LGBTIQ+ rights at the opening of the Commonwealth Games 2022, held in Birmingham, UK. In 2023, she was awarded a Global Good Award from Black Entertainment Television, an international TV channel and was included in Global Citizen’s list of activists.