What is the Youth Council?
The Youth Council was created four months after the birth of the Youth Empowerment Circle, with the aim of truly entrusting the leadership and strategic decisions of the Circle to the young people themselves. The Council is made up of young change-makers under the age of 25 from all over the world, selected for a six-month term. They meet regularly to determine the best approaches and opportunities for the Circle to address issues such as youth rights, health and well-being, and education. In addition, Board members have the unique opportunity to shape a growing community of youth organizations and political institutions around the world, and to serve as ambassadors for the Circle at global events.
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How were they selected?
We enlisted the support of each of the Circle's co-leaders to form an esteemed jury of people with an interest in youth empowerment. We are committed to ensuring that the diversity of the Board is reflected in the diversity of the jury (gender, nationality, ethnicity, etc.).
Many thanks to our international jury for taking on such a difficult selection process:
Asha Murphy, founder of Edufy
Bethany Jennings, Consultant, CAP-2030
Elsa Da Costa Grangier, Director, Ashoka France
Emer Beamer, co-founder, Design-a-thon
Evelyn Ariape, CEO, Young leaders for the climate
Kenneth Kwok, Founder and President, Better Together Foundation
Paramita Banerjee, Founder, DIKSHA
The selection took place in two stages:
Stage 1: Jury members score the applications and draw up a shortlist of 30 candidates
Stage 2: The 30 shortlisted candidates were invited to submit additional responses
Who are these young people?
Almaaz Mudaly, 15, South Africa
Anoushka Sinha, 19, India
Anum Khalid, 22, Pakistan
Binti Mohamed Zani, 20, Kenya
Claudia Costa, 20, England
Guadalupe Allard, 14, Chile
Hitarth Sheth, 18, India
Hugo Paul, 23, France
Karan Chakravarthy, 15, India
Katie Walsh, 15, United States
Louise Déjardin, 17, France
Natalie Chen, 15, Hong Kong
Ngoc Vuong Hong, 25, Vietnam
Raven Frias, 22, Philippines
Rosa Voularinou, 16, Greece
Ruvarashe Moyo, 16, Zimbabwe
Soham Pal, 20, India
Yuki Wang, 14, Australia
What is the Youth Empowerment Circle?
#LearningPlanet, CAP-2030and Catalyst 2030 launched the Circle for Youth Empowerment (CEJ) in May 2021, with the shared aim of supporting youth-inspired initiatives and change-makers. Shortly afterwards, the Cercle francophone pour l'autonomisation des jeunes (French-speaking circle for youth empowerment) was created in partnership with Ashoka France, CAP-2030 and The City of Paris. These sessions aim to demonstrate the value of collaboration across networks, ages and geographies, with the common goal of supporting inspiring young people and change initiatives.
The Cercle connects organizations that share the same goals and ambitions, and offers its members a space to share and promote their current work, initiatives and actions in support of key causes and the most pressing issues affecting young people today. In addition, it offers its members learning and feedback opportunities, and inspires them by sharing and accessing new ideas and best practices, which can lead to new ways of working and new youth support projects.
So far, we've heard from over 25 young speakers in four interactive sessions from Australia, Cameroon, Chile, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates, presenting their hopes, dreams and strategies for youth empowerment. We are committed to ensuring the diversity of the Board and encourage nominations from around the world. We are also grateful for the participation of 6 institutional speakers to encourage a spirit of intergenerational collaboration, and over 300 participants who have actively participated in previous sessions.
