Cianna

Cianna is a youth activist from Saint Lucia. She uses the media to advocate for youth, arts, and social change within her community and beyond.

Cheasoboul

Cheasoboul is a youth activist from Nigeria. She founded a girls’ rights organisation to empower girls and combat sexual and reproductive health violations and gender-based violence in her country.

Khadijah

Khadijah is a spoken word artist from Saint Lucia. She is advocating for mental health awareness and decolonization, particularly addressing colorism and anti-Blackness in her home country and beyond.

Obinna

Obinna is a spoken word artist from Nigeria. As a youth activist, he has achieved over 2,000 volunteer hours in advocating for mental health, children’s and women’s rights.

He has a love for afrofuturism – a movement in literature, music, art, and other forms of expression that blends futuristic or science fiction themes with elements of Black history, culture, and identity.

Princess

Princess is a young leader who is passionate about journalism, rap, poetry, and football. She excels as class prefect and Vice President at her secondary school in her home country, Kenya.

ZamZam

ZamZam is an activist from Kenya. She is invested in the empowerment of women and girls locally in order to ignite positive change and transformation within her community.

Ain

Ain is a passionate gender equality advocate that is spearheading the #MakeSchoolASaferPlace campaign in Malaysia.

She highlights the silence surrounding sexual abuse through art and is a Unicef Youth Ambassador for women and children in her country.

Foday

Foday is a child rights, social development advocate and an influential climate change negotiator from Sierra Leone. He is currently an advisor to the African Union Child Participation Platform’s steering Committed.

Foday also co-authored the Children’s Declaration Appeal of the Global Financial Pact – a declaration, crafted by young advocates for global financial justice and climate action that demands replacing outdated, extractive economic models with equitable frameworks prioritizing people and planet.

Aya

Aya is a 19-year old feminist, social justice, LGBTQIA+ rights activists from Sudan. She has been a significant force in Sudanese civil society since the age of 14.

She is currently involved with Tayf, a youth-led initiative that is promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Sudan.

Aya also currently serves as an advisor with Purposeful where she is contributing to strategic decisions in the region.

Chanceline

Chanceline is a feminist and social activist from Benin. She is the founder of Ayewa Activism Hub – a social innovation hub servin activism and youth movements.

She is fully committed to the struggles for the rights of girls and women, gender justice, social justice and the elimination of sexual violence.

Flineda

Filneda is a youth activist who also works in the medical corps. She currently studies Agronomy and Office Informatics.

Isabella

Isabella is a young, advocate for human rights, peace building from Colombian. She is also a researcher and political scientist majoring in the field of Sociology.

Jordan

Jordan is an award-winning LGBTQIA+ rights activist. She significantly contributed to her. country, Zimbabwe’s Universal Periodic Review on Human Rights in 2021.

Polina

Polina is a Ukrainian refugee, feminist and youth activist who is committed to shifting power in philanthropy by being an ardent advocate for participatory grantmaking and diversity inclusion of all individulas.

Renmark

Renmark is an ‘artvocate’ and a children’s rights activist from Philippines. He is using the power of art to advocate and educate for the right of children in his home country and across the world.

Zenilza

Zenilza is a young leader from a quilombo community in Brasil.

She participates in the Ayomide Odara Project and the UNICEF Reimagine Future Project – a new initiative to give children and young people the space to engage in defining the vision they want for their future and future generations.