Dr. Ocansey is a member of the African Union Labour Migration Advisory Committee, representing the Diaspora African Forum. She is an international best selling author of: Deadly Work or Decent Work? The Africa-Middle East Domestic Workers Migration Process. She is the Chairperson of the United Nations Youth Association- Ghana and the Enddeadlywork Coalition, USA. She has won awards including the prestigious USA Ron Brown Award for International Trade and Good Ethics, the CELD award for Excellence in Migration and Security, Dubai, the GPA awards, UK, the Ma Africa Awards in South Africa, for her humanitarian work in HIV/AIDS.