Career

Since being crowned 1999, Mpule has been recognized and honored as a human health rights activist, especially for her fight against Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and advocacy for youth and women to have greater access to sexual reproductive education and services. Mpule Kwelagobe participated in the Mission World pageant (in 1997) but did not place. She was the first Botswana and the first Mission Botswana to participate in the pageant.

Following her reign as, Mpule became a spokesmodel for Clairol.

The two page ads first appeared in magazines in the United States while Mpule was still In 2000, she was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations, focusing on youth and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Among others, she has addressed the United States Congress (the United States House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Financial Services Mpule testified on the socioeconomic impact of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Africa and proposed a bill to set up a World Bank Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome prevention trust fund). Mpule Kwelagobe is now married to a New York-based businessman, named Sean Johnson who works at Columbia University.

She currently has one child named Sean Johnson also. The 4th United Nations World Youth Summit (Dakar, Senegal), The United Nations General Assembly (New York, United States of America), The World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, South Africa), The 3rd United Nations Least Developed Countries Conference (Brussels, Belgium) Moderated an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome panel during the Congressional Black Caucus at the invitation of Congresswoman Barbara Lee.

In 2015 she signed an open letter which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures foreign

The letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main United Nations summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation.

Achievements

• Mpule Kwelagobe was honored with the Jonathan Mann Health Human Rights Award by the International Association of Physicians in Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Care (IAPAC). She was honored alongside the principal administrator of the European Commission Human Immunodeficiency Virus programme, Lieve Fransen, and former American president William Clinton. In 2003, she was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow (GLT) by the World Economic Forum, joining nearly 500 individuals from business, politics, public interest groups, the media, and the arts and the sciences, including Bill Gates, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Michael Dell and Bono, who have been selected since the programme’s inception in 1993. In 2006, she was again selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader (YGL). The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a newly formed, unique, multi-stakeholder community of the world’s most extraordinary leaders who are 40 years old or younger and who are ready to dedicate their time and energy to jointly work towards a better future. Mpule now holds a degree in political science (international political economy) from Columbia University in the New York City.