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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
Azal Zahir
Manager Sustainable Development and Cultural Initiatives, Beaconhouse Schools
Azal Zahir is an environmental educator and sustainability professional with a Master’s degree in Environmental Conservation Education from New York University (NYU). At Beaconhouse, she specialises in designing educational resources, building systems, and leading projects that connect sustainability, culture, and learning at scale.
Her key contributions at Beaconhouse include founding and leading the Beaconite Nature Odyssey (BNO); introducing and developing Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) across the network, including training school coordinators to scale its implementation across 200 schools; focal person for the 1.5 million tree plantation initiative; and helping develop Once Upon a Time, the Beaconhouse coffee table book preserving and celebrating Pakistan’s rich folklore. She also led the Worldwide Teach-In in partnership with Bard College, engaging 54 Beaconhouse schools in building climate awareness.
Alongside Beaconhouse, Azal is the founder of AbadTak, a social enterprise focused on environmental education. Through AbadTak, she has reached 300+ students directly, trained 31 educators through the IEI × AbadTak Climate Educator Program, indirectly reaching 900+ students, mentored girls through the AbadTak Mentorship Program, and engaged 51 participants through the Scicomm Challenge. AbadTak has also published three educational books: The Great Fire (English & Urdu), Baby Indie (English), and the AbadTak Field Journal for budding scientists.
Across both platforms, her work is driven by a belief that environmental education should be contextual, culturally rooted, experiential, and scalable, equipping educators and young people with the knowledge, skills, and agency to care for their communities and the world around them.
