Youth Power Panelist
I’m a Youth Power Panelist! Organized by Restless Development, Project Everyone & Unilever, The Youth Power panel is a 12-strong panel from all over the world, supporting and connecting youth-led grassroots campaigns with funding; amplifying youth actions creating change; developing tools to help young people everywhere track the goals and hold their leaders to account for their delivery.
Late last year I joined the amazing Youth Power Panel hit the ground running, collaborating as a panel to kickstart the Youth Power Campaign starting with organizing and co-hosting the very first Youth Power Hack. Based in Kenya but open to youth in surrounding countries, we brought together hundreds of young people to spend 5 hours on Zoom and led them through a design thinking process to develop solutions to the achieve the Global Goals. One month later I also worked with teams from South Africa for the second hack.
Later in the year I worked with teams from Kenya and Indonesia to support them in developing their innovative solutions, and coaching them through rounds of pitching. Despite the pandemic we managed to collaborate across borders to work on pressing issues and share insights!
When not working with these amazing young innovators, I also spoke on meaningful youth engagement at several global forums, curated a monthly youth power newsletter (subscribe!), collaborated with 3 young leaders to write a global youth manifesto and conducted trainings in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for youth from across the global south.