Agita Pasaribu

Agita Pasaribu is the Founder and currently Executive Director of Bullyid Indonesia, a global award tech-charity focusing on empowering victims of harassment with digital psychological and legal support. Prior to founding Bullyid Indonesia, Agita was known as the Youth IGF Ambassador for Indonesia; it is a recognised initiative described by the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to engage the young people of Indonesia in the discussion on Internet governance and bring their voices to the global IGF discussion agenda. Agita is also on UNESCO Youth AI (Artificial Intelligence) Ethics Steering Committee. Her contribution and commitment to youth empowerment in digital governance and cyber harassment prevention have been recognised and celebrated globally. Agita received her LL.B in Criminal Law from the University of Indonesia. Fred J Hansen Institute then awarded her to continue the exclusive leadership programme at the University of San Diego. Agita completed her M.A in International Relations from the University of Malaya and was granted the Internet Governance course by the ICANN at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Barcelona-Spain.

Arthur Cesa Venturella

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Arthur is a mining Engineer, researcher, agroforestry consultant and educator, passionate about restoring ecosystems with social impact. Mining Engineer (UFRGS), currently taking my masters with research theme in “Ecological Restoration of Mined Landscapes” and specialization in Agroecology, emphasis on Agroforestry (IFC-Concórdia). I have been studying Agroforestry since 2016 with great references from Brazil and the world. In 2018, I started working with community-based projects specifically with smallholder communities in Lombok, Indonesia; in Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia; and in Bali, Indonesia. I carried out Environmental Education works at Green School Bali with local and international children of different age groups. In 2019, I participated in the 29th International Leadership Workshop for Rural Youth, at the Bavarian Agricultural House, in Herrsching, Germany. I understand regenerative systems as my life mission and I’m seeking to connect this purpose to the most diverse areas of life: academic career, professional choices and private life.

Charles Falajiki

Nigeria

An education development practitioner and social innovator, passionate about solving complex problems through research, policy advocacy, and practice. With over 5 years of transnational work experience, I currently lead the overarching developmental strategy at Aid for Rural Education Access Initiative (AREAi) as the organisation’s Chief Development Officer. I design and scale innovative educational and skills development solutions for marginalised children and at-risk youth in underserved communities. My background includes active engagement with UNESCO, UNICEF, Education Cannot Wait, The Education Commission, TheirWorld, and Education Above All, among others. In 5 years, I have managed over $600,000 in multi-year donor-funded projects, reaching over 50,000 direct beneficiaries across 36 communities in 12 states in Nigeria. My aspirations are centered on transforming educational access and 21st-century digital skill development for last-mile users and children who are at risk of falling behind.

Constance Ohenewaa Ankoma

Constant Odounfa

“I define myself as a youth activist, passionate about education, peace and environment protection. After over 5 years serving as a Monitoring & Evaluation Officer for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), I am currently working with the Batonga Foundation to empower hard-to-reach young women and girls to become agents of change for themselves, their community and beyond. My passion for gender equality and education for women empowerment is the reason that made me join this organization, founded in 2006 by Angelique Kidjo. Apart from my work with the Batonga Foundation, I am also a trainer and volunteer for the One African Child Foundation for Creative Learning (OAC) where I have been actively serving since 2014. Through my work with OAC, I implemented activities and programmes to promote and raise awareness regarding Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Education for International Understanding (EIU), at country level and in West Africa.”

David Medina Andrade

Cota, Cundinamarca, Colombia

At the age of 14 I began to sell homemade cakes door to door and at my school due to a family financial crisis. Thanks to it we were able to pay off the debts and pay for my degree in psychology. I did my internship creating my organization with the aim of empowering young people to address their challenges. The first project I led was sport as a generator of entrepreneurial skills for 40 LGBTI victims of the armed conflict. With this initiative, I applied to the YALI program created by President Obama, my first opportunity to have an exchange abroad, transforming my organization into what I do today: addresses the difficulties faced by emergent young social leaders and entrepreneurs to access international cooperation opportunities to potentiate their initiatives and leadership. Our program has impacted more than 240 young LGBTI, disabled, rural, black and indigenous, HIV leaders and entrepreneurs reaching more than 540.000 USD in grants and 28 scholarships in non formal education. Awarded by King Hamad Award for SDGs by UNDP and Kingdom of Bahrain.

Enochia Hategekimana

Kira , Kampala, Uganda

“Enochia is a Ugandan born in a large family of five children with her being the only girl in the five children. She is a lover of sports majorly soccer and indoor games and music. She is engaged in health related works especially for the elderly through Elyon Homecare. Compassion and love are her major driving forces. she has achieved several of her goals such as setting up a system that helps the elderly access homecare, she has studied clinical medicine and community health and still studying palliative care and has opened up job opportunities for girls within the communities in which Elyon Homecare operates. Her hope and dream is to become one of the best geriatric specialist and also have an elderly home for those without help in Africa majorly Uganda.”

Florin Badita-Nistor

Arad, Romania

Florin Badita-Nistor is a Romanian activist who breathes the online ecosystem and uses the internet as a playground. People refer to Florin as an activist, data scientist, social entrepreneur, and artist. He describes himself as a realistic optimist, logical, and uncommon – in the best sense possible. Along with founding or co-founding 17 communities, Florin is the founder of the civic platform Corruption Kills, one of the largest civic organizations in Romania. He founded the community in 2015 after a fire killed 64 people in a club because of corruption. The biggest protests organized by Corruption Kills had 600,000 people in the street. For his work in fighting corruption in Romania, Forbes included him on the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe in 2018, Euronews nominated him as the European Personality of the Year in 2018, and Humanity in Action selected him as a Landecker Democracy Fellow 2021-2022. 

Hammed Kayode Alabi

London, United Kingdom

I am a nonprofit leader, author, and social entrepreneur known throughout Africa for my advocacy for education, youth, and sustainable development. I describe myself as a product of grace and circumstance. I grew up in the largest floating slum in Africa “Makoko-Nigeria”. I founded a nonprofit, the Kayode Alabi Leadership and Career Initiative -KLCI with over 100 volunteers across 6 states in Nigeria, KLCI has provided life, 21st-century skills, leadership development, and career readiness training to over 6500 secondary school students in rural communities in Nigeria. I also created the teachers-in-training fellowship that has empowered 70 student-teachers in Nigeria with innovative teaching methodologies. Outside of KLCI, I have worked with Peace First as a Regional Manager and board member supporting youth social innovation in over 150 countries. My work has earned me several awards including the MasterCard Foundation Scholarship to complete an MSc in Africa and International Development at the University of Edinburgh.

Hritik Datta

Bangalore, India

I am a mechanical engineering graduate from BMS College of Engineering, currently working at Daimler truck as an engineer in the sustainability and innovation vertical. My hobbies are playing cricket, football, chess and badminton, and if I’m not playing sports, I love to head over to terrains across India for trekking with my friends and love long bike rides. Growing up as a kid, I have always had a passion for physics, sustainability and engineering, I’m happy to see myself pursuing my dreams by working in the domain in which I was always passionate. I have always been driven and inspired by the work done for a better cause and want to follow in the footsteps of the leaders who have contributed so much to make the world a better place. I’m a passionate, inspired, disciplined and driven individual who always seeks the best in anything that I do, which has reflected very positively in my life, be it achieving good grades in education, acing sports competitions or completing projects successfully

Jacob Peters

New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A

An insight into the window that is Jacob would be find a driven personality that is focused on social impact. This was birthed through my personal experience of Hurricane Katrina in a New Orleans. Seeing and being affected firsthand of devastation and witnessing social division in the rebuild of the city led me away from a potential career in investment banking to work on rebuilding the physical and social fabric of New Orleans. Using my experience in playing and coaching team sports allowed me to progress quickly in my career in with all people towards the goals of the foundation and community. To end, I would like to leave a quote that motivates me every day, “The fact that something seems impossible shouldn’t be a reason to not pursue it. That’s exactly what makes it worth pursuing.”

Joel Omondi Omiyo

Mombasa, Kenya

I am a passionate community health champion with four years of experience in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV prevention, menstrual hygiene management and gender-based violence. My journey as a champion for young people started in 2018, when I witnessed alarmingly high numbers of teen pregnancies and new HIV infections among adolescent girls. I was determined to make a difference and started conducting sensitization and outreach activities on family planning, HIV prevention and youth-friendly services at the grassroots level. Along with other social contributors, I co-founded the SEYA Youth Organization, aimed at improving the health and well-being of adolescents and young people in Mombasa County. This opportunity also led me to be a part of the Youth Advisory Champions for Health Mombasa, where I have been advocating for quality standalone youth-friendly centers. I have also been a part of several AYP projects, including FAYA by Amref Health, UADILIFU by DSW, and the Empower for Change project by LVCT Health, among others.

Khan N. Badeng

South Sudan

I am a 25-year-old South Sudanese and a final-year agriculture student at Juba University. During my free moments, I love reading books, watching documentaries, and volunteering at community awareness programs. I am currently part-timing at Kush Farmers co-operatives Ltd as an assessment officer. When weighing career choices, many young people in my developing country South Sudan tend to shy away from agriculture. I, too, once found myself disenchanted by the small villages and the sorghum gardens I grew up seeing every day. As the conventional belief goes, agriculture means an archaic lifestyle and a future with limited opportunities for youth. But I later learned I was wrong. Plenty of evidence shows us that agriculture provides youth with a viable way to harvest success and grow sustainably. In other words, I believe youth can, and should, choose agriculture future because it is a farming business rather than a development platform in my country South Sudan is gathering momentum. I think this is a positive perspective.

Marthar Nderitu

Port Louis, Mauritius

In my penultimate year in computing at African Leadership university. Clothed in a fiery vigor to achieve a wholesome individualism through personal development. I have a nauseating audacity to dream. It has however come to gain its relish seeing that I have risen from being a wrinkled dry-skin girl who picked tea after school and sometimes missed school to pick tea in a rural tea plantation in Kenya. To the best student in a sub-county in the national high school examination, a recipient of a fully-funded Mastercard scholarship to study at ALU, and a Take Action Lab fellow by Global Citizen Year. I am passionate about social equality, I am a decent chess player. I treasure Maya Angelou, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Music: SZA , Brent Faiyaz.

Modesta Joseph Msabila

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

I am a 23-year-old Mastercard scholar at the African Leadership University in Rwanda, studying International Business and Trade. My passions lie in social entrepreneurship, education, gender equality, and empowering youth. I have extensive experience as a leader in the fields of technology and education. I co-developed and implemented e-learning and e-mentorship platforms and have taught coding to over a thousand students in Tanzania during my time as an IT Administrator for an NGO called Apps and Girls. In addition, I am the founder of Our Voices Against Harassment (OVAH), an NGO based in Tanzania. OVAH’s goal is to create a gender-just and violence-free nation by implementing sexual violence response and prevention interventions. I lead a team of volunteers and staff to accomplish this mission. I am also 2017 We Are Family Foundation Global Teen Leader and a 2018 Africa Young Leader Fellow. My primary objective is to make a difference in society and empower young people and women

Pedro Calcagni Rojas

Santiago, Chile

My biggest passion is nature, so i’ve been working on different paths around it, hoping to protect it and regenerate it and our relationship with it, it’s species, and ourselves. I was formed scout in my school, and studied environmental engineering. I’ve also worked around it. I’ve participated on politics projects such as “ECOnstitución”, where we wanted to get ecofriendly candidates chosen for our attempt for a new constitution on the past few years. Also, i’ve worked in small sustainability focused companies related to ecodesign and anaerobic digestion. When i became part of the teaching team of the Institute for Sustainable Development (IDS) of my university, my life changed in a way and i started asking myself how good and critic education can be the key to a paradigm change. Not only education but formation in general, because it includes us all, and it also includes people that are living in the present. So with AoS (my current project), we are looking for ways to create collaborative learning and coenvolving spaces for all people to inspire and feel connected with our nature and ourselves.

Satyam Gupta

Deoria, India

“I am an engineer by education, a teacher, project manager and data analyst by profession. I have worked in a public school, at a community centre in one of India’s most violent ghettos and with the ministry of education to run the largest ever EdTech program.

I enjoy cooking, reading and writing poetry. I am driven by the desire to ensure that people have the access to opportunities for success, and my hopes and dreams are of a world that is just, equitable and empowers everyone to lead a life of dignity.”

Shivangi Jain

New Delhi, India

“​I savor the autonomy of independent film-making and photography. Having pursued their MA in Mass Communication from AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Delhi and MFA in Cinema Direction from Boston University, Massachusetts; I thrive for my work to reflect cultured cinema. My films have traveled the film festival circuits around the world and garnered some awards. I, also, co-founded United for Transgender Health, an organization working for equitable and accessible healthcare for LGBT*QIA+ folks in India.”

Silvano Lieger

Horgen, Switzerland

At the age of 27, I realized that I wanted to make a meaningful difference in the world. As a branding, public relations, and advertising professional, I felt unfulfilled working for companies and brands that didn’t align with my values. Seeking reflection and purpose, I traveled across the Americas for eight months and met inspiring activists who fought for environmentalism, animal welfare, and human rights. I felt empowered to use my skills to create a public conversation around something I truly believed in, and upon returning home, I decided to become an advocate for animals. I joined the activism community, learned about our political system, and engaged with relevant stakeholders to create more sustainable and just food systems. Through my work with Sentience Politics, with which I was able to create meaningful, nationwide conversations around fundamental animal rights and a world beyond factory farming, I have seen first-hand the impact that one person can make.

Somaya Albhaisi

Richmond,Virginia, U.S.A

“I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a Clinical Hospitalist in the Department of Internal Medicine at VCU. My research focuses on the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis cirrhosis. In 2019 I was awarded the AASLD Emerging Liver Scholar Award for my research achievements. I was born in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. I grew up in the UAE and received my MBBCh degree in Dubai Medical College. I moved to the U.S. for Internal Medicine residency training at VCU and then transitioned to faculty position in 2019. My long term career goals are to bring science, innovation and philanthropy under the umbrella of public health; advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion in all medical fields; and lead by example. My hope and dream for my future is to become a global thought leader and a social entrepreneur.”