MAYADA ADIL SASI STUDENT

Mayada Adil is an HEC SASI Master's student (H2027), a Sudanese medical doctor, fashion designer, women's rights advocate for health equity and refugee rights activist. Based in France, she has worked on campaigns focused on ending gender-based violence, specifically female genital mutilation in Sudan and Mali.

Mayada was selected by the French Foreign Ministry to represent Sudanese youth at the Paris Conference for Sudan in 2021, where she addressed French President Emmanuel Macron and emphasised the role of young people in facilitating a democratic transition and enacting political and economic change. She has also represented Sudanese women at the Generation Equality Forum, where she spoke about integrating refugee women into communities across France.

Mayada co-founded the LaLoupeCreative artistic platform, which reaches out to refugee artists around the world and provides training programmes intended to develop their skills and create 'art clinics'.

She is also recognised as a climate advocate and creative champion of the We!Are campaign by Crtve Development, a pan-African social agency that uses storytelling and campaigning to address climate justice, food security, gender equality, health equity, migration and peace.