Read the third-place prize-winning entry from the YALI 10 Competition by Hyasintha Ntuyeko, 2015 Fellowship Alumna from Tanzania.
Alumni Reflect on their WILD Leadership Journeys
In May 2021, the Women Innovators & Leaders (WILD) Network hosted their 2021 Women in Global Development Leadership (WILD) Virtual Forum with this year’s theme...
Fellowship Alumni Selected as 2021 Peace Ambassadors
The European Commission and One Young World announced the latest cohort of One Young World Peace Ambassadors. The program connects young leaders working to prevent...
YALI10 Competition, First Place: The Shy Girl Who Refuses to Die Shy
Read the first-place prize-winning poem from the YALI 10 Competition by Chidzani Mbenge, 2019 Fellowship Alumna from Botswana.
Alumna Wins Prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for Advocacy Campaign
For more than five years, Gloria Majiga-Kamoto, a 30-year-old Malawian environmental activist, has waged a David v Goliath battle against some of the country's largest...
She Grew Up Without Books. Now She’s Fighting for Literacy for Every Child.
Morine Wairimu Mwangi, 2019 Fellowship Alumna from Kenya, loved reading while growing up, but she often didn’t have access to books. Now she’s bringing books...
Incorporating the arts into healthcare
Recently, the United States Consulate General in Nigeria, in collaboration with Tender Arts Nigeria, unveiled an “Arts and Medicine Innovation Hub” hosted at the Federal...
500 Women with Disabilities Supported Through U.S. Government Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund
Project Enable, a program supported by the Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund has trained 500 women with disabilities and caregivers in entrepreneurial and digital marketing skills...
How Mabenge made history when he set out to be himself
2017 Fellowship Alumnus Landa Mabenge made history in 2014 when he became the first known transgender man in South Africa to have his surgeries funded....
Majorwaves Named Local Content Magazine of the Year
The Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria (OGTAN) recently awarded Majorwaves Energy Report (MER) the Best Local Content Magazine of the Year 2020.