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Nancy Kisangau
Nancy Kisangau is a fourth year student at Kenyatta University pursuing a Bachelor degree in Law. Prior to this, she worked in the Kenya National Human Rights Commission as an attaché in the Reforms and accountability department. She has also worked in the government sector as an intern in the National Housing Corporation, a state parastatal committed to effectuating housing rights for Kenyan citizens.
Nairobi
Kenya
Name, Title
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
United States
After graduating with a BA in Economics and English, Amanda worked for the Chilean Ministry of Education as an English teacher in Chile. While there, she volunteered for an urban development NGO that was carrying out 24 community projects and helped draft Frutillar, Chile’s successful application to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. During her career, she has worked with international youth on educational programs sponsored by the British Council and the U.S. Department of State. She is a former White House intern and an incoming Fulbright Scholar.
Felix Mmeka
Port Harcourt
Nigeria
Felix is currently a National Youth Service Corp member serving his country, Nigeria at Ministry of Works, Uyo, Akwa Ibom. He graduated from Swansea University, with a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 2014 and went on to complete a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering in 2017. Felix developed a strong devotion to Youth Empowerment and giving back to his Community during his time at Swansea University from various leadership roles e.g. Sports Officer and Trustee of Swansea University Students’ Union, Treasurer of 2 societies etc. These experiences gave him an appreciation of how initiatives can significantly impact people’s lives.
Harun Momanyi
Nairobi
Kenya
Harun Momanyi is a youth empowerment expert, a socioeconomic development journalist and an entrepreneur. He is passionate about the SDGs. Originally from Kenya, Harun currently works as the Head of Kenya with Reform Africa Group, a Pan-African organization focusing on creating solutions to help youth realize meaningful employment and tackle life challenges better. In 2014, he was finalist in the Haller Prize for Development Journalism, became and ambassador for the NUHA Foundation Global Blogging Prize in 2015, a Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 nominee in 2018 and was shortlisted for the BBC World News Service Komla Dumor Award in 2018.
Victor Musa
Abuja
Nigeria
Victor is an Engineer and a problem solver. He is passionate about education and poverty eradication. Victor currently works as Cofounder and facilitator of Tech the girl Child Africa (TGC) an outreach program that seeks to engage over 10,000 girl child, especially in Africa with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics).
Victor is also serving as Director of sales and marketing at Mingcart, a company he cofounded in 2016 to unify Africa through culture and traditions.
Victor has received a number of prestigious National Merit Scholarship awards for his dedication to education. He hopes see everyone educated someday.
Ezinne Uche
Ezinne is a youth passionate about issues pertaining to inclusive growth, sustainable development, climate change and the enormous transformations taking place in especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. She seeks to earn a doctorate degree in Development Economics and her career goal is to be a development economist in an international development organization.
Lagos
Nigeria
Systems Change
Global Schools Advocates and the leadership team are engaged in multiple projects that promote transformative education for primary and secondary school students.
Curriculum Reform in Austria
Global Schools Advocate and Mentor, Marti Hendrichs, participated in the Austrian Green Label general meeting and is now creating a template to integrate SDGs that will be used by all Austrian Green Schools. She was also invited by the Ministry of Education to be part of an expert group that creates the STEM curriculum for middle and secondary schools in Austria. During the working group discussions, she presented her Global Schools Advocacy, and all experts agreed to integrate sustainable development into the new STEM curriculum for a middle and secondary schools in Austria. This curriculum is currently being tested by some schools and will be adjusted before its complete integration for the school year 2022-2023.
Integrating ESD Into
Australian Teacher Training
Global Schools Advocate, Geoff Holt, submitted a proposal to
Climate Action Curriculum Development in Manitoba, Canada
Global Schools Advocate, Amanda Tetrault, is leading a team of nine teachers in the development of a unit on SDG 13: Climate Action. The team has received funding from the Manitoba province to develop a Climate Action unit connected to SDG 13. They will work with all of our science teachers (across both English and French tracks), local agencies such as Green Action Centre of Manitoba, Climate Action Network, students on the Climate Action Team, and parent volunteers when available. The goal is to develop a grade 7 unit within the science curriculum and then move on to grade 8 to tackle deeper ideas with a focus on inquiry.