Aya Chebbi
Pan-African activist, Tunisian diplomat and feminist.
Ms. Aya Chebbi, born in 1988 a multi-award-winning Pan-African feminist. She rose to prominence as a voice for democracy and shot to global fame as a political blogger during the 2010/2011 Tunisia Revolution. She received the 2019 Gates Foundation Campaign Award and was named in Forbes’ Africa’s 50 Most Powerful Women and New African Magazine List of 100 Most Influential Africans. Her story and talks have been critically acclaimed by the Guardian, HuffPost, Jeune Afrique, France24, Deutsche Welle, and more.
She served as the first-ever African Union Special Envoy on Youth and the youngest diplomat at the African Union Commission Chairperson’s Cabinet. In her role, she met and advocated to over 30 Heads of State and Governments and to over 160 global leaders on the youth agenda in Africa and the diaspora which resulted in policy changes continentally and globally and an increase in youth appointments nationally. She has mobilized Youth Silencing the Guns Campaign which has become African Union’s largest youth campaign and main platform on Youth, Peace, and Security agenda. In her role, she has also widely mobilized young women resulting in the first-of-its-kind Africa Young Women Manifesto. She has curated the internationally acclaimed concept of Intergenerational Co-leadership and engaged millions of young people during COVID-19 pandemic, documented in the Africa Youth Lead Policy Paper.
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