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Nancy Kisangau
Nairobi
Kenya
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
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
United States
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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 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
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 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
Lagos
Nigeria
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
Abhilasha Singh
Principal of Shining Star International School, Abu Dhabi
Abhilasha Singh is the Principal of Shining Star International School, Abu Dhabi, with extensive experience in educational leadership, school improvement, innovation and global citizenship. She is a Senior Fellow of the International Forum of Inclusion Practitioners (IFIP), UAE Country Ambassador for T4 Education, and a Global Schools Advocate and Mentor with the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
A strong advocate for sustainability education and youth agency, Abhilasha serves on UNESCO’s Greening Education Partnership working groups and contributes to global initiatives connecting education with sustainable development. She is also part of the Teachers Committee for The Ages of Globalization, curated by Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, and serves as Strategy and Outreach Coordinator for the UN Common Cluster NGO Major Group.
Abhilasha has represented civil society and education at international platforms including the UN High-Level Political Forum, the Summit of the Future at UN Headquarters, COP28 and COP29. Her work focuses on empowering young people to become informed, responsible and solution-oriented changemakers.
Under her leadership, Shining Star International School was shortlisted among the Top 10 schools globally for the T4 Education Best School Prize for Innovation. Her professional learning includes leadership programmes from Cornell University and Harvard, alongside international school inspection certification from Tribal Group, UK.
Beyond education, Abhilasha is a lifelong sportsperson, marathon runner and cyclist. She brings the same commitment to resilience, continuous learning and purposeful action to her leadership and global education work.
