Photo: Ben Rayner for The New York Times Born in 2001, Rowan Blanchard began acting at the age of five. She appeared in several television shows and movies, with her big break starring as Riley Matthews in Girl Meets World and a recurring role on The Goldbergs....
Payal speaks to a school group in an Indian village. Photo courtesy World Children’s Prize. In the village of Rajasthan, India, Payal Jangid has led a fight against child marriage. It began in 2014, when the then 11-year-old Payal stopped the marriages of her...
Photo Courtesy of Nibras Khudaida. One day, while walking home from school, a young girl was attacked. It sounds like Malala Yousafzai’s story…but it is not. It is the story of many girls, but today one in particular: Nibras Khudaida. Nibras was born in a...
Organizers from Teens4Equality speak as protestors gather in Bicentennial Mall Park in Nashville, June 4, 2020. Image courtesy Good Morning America. In June 2020, a massive protest in Nashville in support of the Black Lives Matter movement gained international...
Photo courtesy Asia Society. Muzoon Almellehan is a 22-year-old Syrian activist and refugee, currently living in the U.K. She is sometimes referred to as the “Malala of Syria,” and is friends with Malala Yousafzai, having met at a refugee camp in...
In 2012, twin girls of Pakistani descent – Maryam and Nivaal Rehman – were born in Canada. At the age of eight, the girls visited their ancestral homeland, Pakistan, and the school which had been built on land donated by their grandmother. Maryam and...
