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Nhial Deng is a South Sudanese/Ethiopian refugee living in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. He is passionate about empowering young people through education, mentorship, and social entrepreneurship to build inclusive, secure and sustainable communities. He heads the Refugee Youth Peace Ambassadors in Kakuma and studied Learning Facilitation at Regis University (Jesuit Worldwide Learning). He is currently working towards a Certificate in Journalism and Filmmaking from the FilmAid International Media Training Program.
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Young Haitian with two years of awarded experiences in international development focused on education and youth empowerment. Previous professional and volunteering collaborations with UNESCO and USAID implementing capacity-building and advocacy projects for disadvantaged youth in Haiti
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Mohsen is a policy entrepreneur whose doctoral research work at Universities of Nottingham and Oxford focused on critically analysing how youth volunteering can be mainstreamed in multi-level environmental governance processes in Pakistan. He has co-founded ‘Green Box’, Pakistan's first youth-driven engagement lab nurturing sustainability leadership and climate change resilience in Pakistan. Mohsen has over 8 years of diverse experience in the international development sector and has undertaken several research and advocacy assignments with UNESCO, UNDP and UN Volunteers in the UK, Thailand, Kenya, Brazil and Nepal. Mohsen was selected as UN Young Champion of the Earth (Asia and the Pacific) regional finalist 2019 and won Emerging Star for Policy Impact award 2019 at the University of Nottingham.