Zuriel Oduwole
Zuriel Oduwole is best known for her development work across the globe and advocating for girls education, especially in Africa. In , at the age of 10, she was profiled in Forbes Magazine and was listed among 33 women who had changed the world in by ELLE Magazine. In , she was honored by the US Secretary of State for advocating against child marriages and for girls’ education.
Zuriel has met one-on-one with over 30 World Leaders to address Global Social Development and Education Challenges. She has spoken to 48, youths in 19 countries about the power of Education, including at the COP23 in Bonn, where she demonstrated the confluence between climate change and education.
In March she met with President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique to talk about the power and significance of educating girls. Mozambique outlawed girl marriage sixteen months later in July She is a quiet but powerful inspiration to millions of girls, women and leaders, around the world.
Zuriel Elise Oduwole is an American education advocate and film maker best known for her works on the advocacy for the education of girls in Africa. Her advocacy has since made her in the summer of at the age of 10, the youngest person to be profiled by Forbes. In November , at age 12, Zuriel became the world's youngest filmmaker to have a self-produced and self-edited work screened, after her film showed in two movie chains, and then went on to show in Ghana, England, South Africa, and Japan.
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