Ghada Zribi

Project Manager, Public Speaker, and Social Media Manager in Tunis Centre, Tunisia

Ghada Zribi

Project Manager, Public Speaker, and Social Media Manager in Tunis Centre, Tunisia

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Ghada Zribi, a Tunisian human-right activist, women advocate, and award-winning blogger at 'From Tunisia, with Peace' and 'Peaceholics'.
Passionate about photography, she has recently received the Golden award by the British embassy and Kalakar competition for her creativity in using arts for shaping her identity as a global young leader. Starting from her teenage years, Ghada was active in the Tunisian civil society. She co-founded 'Young Leaders Entrepreneurs', which is a youth-led association that invests in empowering Tunisian youth and organizing bootcamps and startups to coach young potentials t innovate and speak for their rights.
Ghada is a graduate in Humanities at the University of Carthage: ISLT in Tunis where she specialized in contemporary civilizations, translation, and literature.
In 2014, she earned her spot among the young leaders of her country who gained the prestigious Thomas Jefferson scholarship, thank to which she spent one academic and professional year in the United States majoring American and Peace and Justice Studies at the University of New Mexico. In Albuquerque, USA, she worked with African and Iraqi refugees in the Lutheran Family Services that invested in the inclusion of refugees in the American society and served as a communication manager at the Peace and Justice department of the University of New Mexico.

Ghada's researches on the situation of women and girls in her region has paved the way for her to be the voice of women of her community in different international conferences. She was invited as a guest speaker at OxFam USA, and gave a speech at the Roundhouse of Santa Fe, USA in the celebration of Women's day, in which she highlighted the daily struggles faced by women in the world like forced marriage, sex trafficking, and discussed the importance of the ratification of CEDAW (Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women).

Ghada has recently started working on her project “Change Makers Ibk” to enhance the culture of citizenship and leadership capacities of Tunisian high scholars using technology and art.
As an Ashoka alumna, Ghada is working on increasing youth and women participation in African agriculture in African communities with the Ashoka Change Makers team.

By 2020, Ghada is working to achieve her dream in initiating the first women-led entrepreneurial movement to empower girls in remote areas in Africa.

  • Education
    • University of New Mexico