#Integrity #Passion #Resilience
Leadership Anthem: Venezuela by Pablo Herrero Ibarz

Senior of Liberal Studies at Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela. Advocate for transforming realities through meaningful youth civic engagement, and the defense of democracy and equality in Latin America. Dedicated to sustainable education and building leadership networks, with female empowerment as a key goal. Exercised leadership roles in the National Student Movement of Venezuela for over 3 years, in elected positions of representation of youth demands towards national authorities, civil society, and the international community. Designed and implemented non-violence practices and protocols to over 40 student protests with over 1 million participants from 2017 to 2019. Elaborated a diagnosis of 26 universities in 13 states of Venezuela, on behalf of fighting for institutional autonomy and sustainability, as well as building a network for national youth participation.  Currently serving as Director of Female Leadership in the NGO Proyecto Base. Founder of “El Círculo”, a Latin American Female Leadership network with participants from 7 countries, thriving to cooperate and impulse active female leadership and critical mass in the region, based on shared perspectives. Founder of Women in Business Venezuela, an undergraduate network for professional guidance. Member of the Latin American Public Servants Network of the Botín Foundation, and the UNIMET Honorary List.

#Leader #SocialImpactWarrior #Compassionate
Leadership Anthem: Wakenya Pamoja for Peace

Ian Makamara is a 24-year-old Kenyan lawyer with an interest in digital rights, gender equality and the freedom of expression. Currently, Ian is a Public Policy and Corporate Communication Conslutant with Speyside where he has advised multiple tech companies on their entry and operation in the Kenyan market. He is also a founding member of the Nawiri Sisters Foundation, an organisation dedicated to the eradication of period poverty for underprivileged girls in Kenya. Ian is also an innovation consultant who works with social impact entrepreneurs across the globe to learn about Little Big Fund’s unique model and find approaches to scale it through partnerships and collaborations with social impact organizations and foundations around the world. 

Ian was also an Empowered Elections Initative Fellow with the IRI, where his work and research was centred around elections fairness with a focus on Columbia and Kenya. Ian is also an advisory Board Member of the Global Childhood Academy, where his work is focused on ensuring that providers of child care receive adequate and easily accessible training across the world. As a member of the Youth Action Team, Ian wil be actively working to empower young activists across the globe through advocacy and research. 

#Activist #Inclusion #CerebralPalsy
Leadership Anthem: Real Inclusion for people with disabilities

I am Susan Sabano from Uganda, 27 years old, a youth living with Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral Palsy is a disability that affects the part of the brain responsible for body coordination. I serve as a Board member at Show Abilities Uganda (SAU) which is an umbrella organization for the youth with Disability in Uganda. I perform the role of a youth advocate for the inclusion of persons with cerebral palsy where their rights and their potential needs adhere to both National and grass-root levels.

I am passionate about seeing an inclusive society having all youth (the able-bodied and those with Disabilities) being given equal opportunities without Stigmatization and Discrimination and also serving communities beyond themselves for their better wellbeing. This has been an inspiration and a cause to work in every aspect of life to make a significant change in the life of the needy, especially marginalized group.

#homoempathicus  #storyteller  #adventurer
Leadership Anthem: Avril Lavigne – We Are Warriors

Mihajlo is a youth worker passionate about the Bonn Process, revitalising pluralistic democracy and meaningful youth participation. He was a Serbian youth delegate at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities at the Council of Europe and a youth representative at the National Advisory Council on Youth, a co-management system within the Govt. of Serbia. Regionally, he works in peacebuilding and the promotion of human rights, democracy and NFE. At the moment, he is engaged at Res Polis from Novi Sad, where he designs, implements and oversees youth-oriented and youth-led activities. 

#Dedication #Inclusion #Reliability
Leadership Anthem: Whatever it takes – Imagine Dragons

Nikita Leonie Peck studies law in Hamburg, Germany. In 2017, she became a national finalist in the debating competition “Jugend debattiert”. Ahead of the state elections in 2019, she debated the expansion of renewable energies with Brandenburg’s minister-president Dietmar Woidke. As a representative of the Jugend debattiert alumni association, she is involved in the coordination of workshops at schools. Moreover, she was part of the UNICEF Juniorteam Berlin and gained experience as a youth delegate and mentor of UNITE 2030. She is especially passionate about youth participation, quality education, climate action and mental health.

#SocialArtivist #Integratedbeing #Collectiveleadership
Leadership Anthem: Planting Seeds – Nimo Patel

Kejal has been facilitating leadership journeys through learning and social action, since 2014. She is the CEO/ Co-founder of Wisdom Tree. It works on leadership and culture transformation with social organisations.

Her journey in the social space started with the Blue Ribbon Movement (BRM) as a civic fellow who moved on to lead civic programs that have built active citizenship in 800+ youth. She then co-envisioned and convened a volunteer-led youth movement of these alumni that runs with 100% consent.  

Believing in the spirit of togetherness, she has been part of diverse networks in India. Kejal has also been involved in peacebuilding through the South Asian Youth Conferences. She was selected as the youth representative of India at the World Forum for Democracy 2015, France. She is currently serving her second term as Youth Action Team member at CIVICUS. 

#Diversity #Compassion #Empathy #YouthEmpowerment
Leadership Anthem: 倔强；孤勇者

A law graduate at Queen’s University Belfast, and a Masters in Corporate Law graduate at the University of Cambridge – Choo is currently SEO London’s (a UK-based charity) Corporate Law Programme Coordinator, supporting/mentoring students from BAME and social mobility backgrounds to succeed in their legal career journey. He is also an ambassador for the British Youth Council and Youth Futures Foundation Future Voices Group, advocating for youth unemployment issues across the UK.  

Besides, he was a Childline Counsellor and the Founder of the Welfare Taskforce for Malaysian Students Abroad – supporting young people/students globally with their mental health especially during COVID. He is also a Board Member of SistersIN, a charity focused on empowering/developing leadership skills amongst female students to succeed in tomorrow’s workplace. 

Internationally, he was invited by the UN OSGEY to be part of its Youth, Peace, and Security Protection Working Group, and is an active One Young World Ambassador who co-organised its inaugural University of Cambridge Caucus. Some of his notable achievements include receiving the QUB Student of the Year Award, Union of Students (Ireland) International Student of the Year Award, a Diana Award, and being appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. 

#Visionary #BuildNarratives #YouthPower
Leadership Anthem: Follow The Leader – The Soca Boys

Daniel is the media and communications coordinator at Afrika Youth Movement; a youth-led movement with over 10,000 members in over 41 countries and 15 country hubs. He is passionate about everything youth, media, and information literacy. As part of his role, Daniel was responsible for media engagement of the movement and contributing to policy frameworks on the continent from the African Union to national initiatives and alliances including the Fight Inequality Youth Alliance (Denmark) and Africans Rising (Tanzania). In 2017, Daniel began engaging with UNESCO and GAPMIL to promote media and information literacy among young people globally. Daniel Nwaeze served on the CIVICUS Youth Action Team from 2019-2020.

#Energetic #Ambitious #EngagedInCivilSociety
Leadership Anthem: Coldplay - Sky Full of Stars

Lilia Khazri is a 21-year old social activist based in Tunisia advocating gender equality, peace building and youth empowerment. She is an international relations student who is very passionate about social activism, diplomacy and changemaking. Throughout her journey with in civic engagement, Lilia worked with civil society NGOs at both national and international scale, including : IBuild Africa, Girl Up, NOW4Humanity, Paper Airplanes, AMEL Institute and many more. Currently, she is the country ambassador of Tunisia in Peace First Organization as well as a project coordinator for the Cultural Club of Ali Belhouane Tunis. In advancing the cause of youth empowerment, she is leading SPEAK UP TUNISIA and keeps believing that meaning youth engagement can build a harmonious and advanced world where everyone is included, respected and heard.

#YouthLeader #HealthcareWorker #Musician
Leadership Anthem: Mississippi goddam - Nina Simone

Mehjar is a youth leader based from Sweden where he’s studying medicine and global health. He is currently sitting as a board member of Amnesty International Sweden. Mehjar started as an activist in high school working with the human rights movement through different organizations such as Amnesty, the Red Cross Youth, and FIAN-Sweden. He is especially interested in the right to healthcare and its intersection with other human rights. As his activism expanded, he started becoming active in more international work through IFMSA, Terre des Hommes, Amnesty’s international networks, and meetings. As he started working on a more strategic level, the grass-root is still integrated within his work as he knows how essential it is. Mehjar has always seen youth engagement as an important part of his activism and a crucial part of the current world of activism. We are pivotal to creating change and meaningful youth engagement should systematically see us, amplify us, and listen to us. Youth involvement and more youth in leadership positions will make the movement stronger and better.

#Activism #Passion #Diversity
Leadership Anthem: We Are the Champions by Queen

René Díaz is 29 years old and a master's student in economics. He is the founder of Ayudando a Honduras, renextbomblog, pazartistas and other projects in his country promoting social change and peacebuilding. He is a strong LGBTI activist, promoter of human rights, peace, justice and social impact. In recent years, he has focused on working closely with social entrepreneurship for the benefit of the most vulnerable adolescents and young people in Honduras.

#SocialJustice #Science4ThePeople #CommunityWork
Leadership Anthem: La Vida Vale la Pena – Petrona Martínez

Sandra is a physics engineer, social human right activist and teacher. She has been a social and human right activist since the age of 17 participating and coordinating protests in Colombia for education, human rights and against police brutality. She is a strong advocate of putting science and engineering at the service of the people and not the big companies and believes and has worked for building community sustained economies. She participates in Hands on the Field, a grassroots organization committed to putting knowledge of university students and teachers at work to serve poor peasants and rural development. She is also cofounder of the People Support Network, a community organization that builds on solidarity and self-management to collectively face poverty, discrimination, health and other problems encountered specially by women and youth in poor neighborhoods in Colombia. She believes in the power of civil society movements and the leading role youth takes in them.

#kind #imperfectfeminist #listener
Leadership Anthem: I'm Still Standing - Elton John

Sanaya is a youth activist and a dispute resolution lawyer practicing in Mumbai, India. She is a strong advocate for gender justice and works at the intersection of law and development. Sanaya is the Chief Legal Officer at One Future Collective (OFC), a feminist, youth-led not-for-profit, nurturing radical kindness in people, organizations, and communities, where she is involved with legal compliance, strategy, research, and community organizing. During the covid-19 lockdown, she has led OFC's open mic nights, facilitating dialogue on themes such as labor, care and rebuilding, through poetry. Sanaya believes that art, poetry, and music have the power to transform communities.

Alan is a lawyer and passionate human rights defender from Bolivia. He serves as the Director of Policy and Advocacy of the International Youth Alliance for Family Planning, and is the Founder of Change the System (CTS), a Bolivian youth-led organization working towards sustainable development, human rights and youth participation, from a systemic change perspective. He is a vocal advocate for human rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and meaningful youth engagement in decision making. He believes that an intersectional and holistic approach to global issues is fundamental for addressing the issues that are central to his work. He has followed and led advocacy strategies in different international processes.

Dragana is a Management Board member at the Center for Intercultural Dialogue (CID), a youth-led organisation in North Macedonia working with young people from different ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds in a post-conflict society. As part of her role, she is running an open youth centre, MultiKulti (MultiКулти), in the city of Kumanovo, where she works on her fields of expertise, including intercultural dialogue, human rights and youth participation by using integrated education. She also works as an educator on these themes with youth and adults at a local, national and international level. You can find her on Instagram: @jovanovska91.