Global Founders | Mentoring Women for Civic Leadership in the Gambia

Global Founders | Mentoring Women for Civic Leadership in the Gambia

Written By Drew Precious
March 7, 2022

Season 4, Episode 6
Lala Touray is a 2021 Alumna of the Mandela Washington Fellowship’s Civic Engagement Institute at the Presidential Precinct. She is an award-winning poet, activist, and mentor to young girls and women in the Gambia. Lala is also the recipient of the 2022 Youth Excellence Award by She Awards Gambia. In this episode, Lala shares her vision for increasing women’s participation in Gambian politics and a call to #BreakTheBias for the benefit of all people.

 

Introductory music titled “Supernova” by Presidential Precinct Alumnus David Hofisi

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