Celebrating four years of the WOW Young Leaders Directory

They're changing the world. Will you?

Launched in 2020 in response to the COVID pandemic, each year since then WOW has worked with our global partners to identify girls and non-binary young people aged 11-18 from across the globe, who are demonstrating extraordinary leadership in activism and leading campaigns for change in their town, city or country. Their passions are broad, encompassing climate justice, LGBTQIA+, eradicating poverty, access to education and many others. The WOW Young Leaders Directory is a mechanism to platform their activism, including a profile of each leader, describing their leadership journey.

Earlier this year we published Girls to the World: Letters for Change, an anthology of letters by our Young Leaders and other young activists.

149 activists from 61 countries