Mandela Washington Fellowship - Summer 2023
“I believe in a world that is safe and equitable for the LGBTQI community.”
David Nii Doodo LARBI is a passionate human rights activist, advocate for Youth Empowerment and SDGs Champion. He is dependable and a communicator. He has over 3+ years of corporate and individual-enterprise experience in customer service, along with project and research management. He is a former Projects and Communications intern at Pan Africa ILGA and currently the Projects Officer at Pan Africa ILGA. He is the founder of Youth Alliance for Equality Foundation. He was former Trustee for ReportOUT UK (a global SOGIESC human rights organisation in United Kingdom). David is the first LGBTIQ+ activist who spoke at Ghana’s Voluntary National Review in 2022 during the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at the United Nations. Currently a member of the Alliance for Equality and Diversity. He firmly believes that the essence of life, is life itself and all the basics that go with it. Laws are made by people for people and should not be biased in any way that leads to discrimination. After completing the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, David plans to empower and build the capacity of young people who are interested in becoming human rights activists and advocates in Ghana and across the African Continent.