Yara El-Braidy

Yara is a media practitioner with experience in campaigning for social change. She earned a Bachelor’s of Arts in Mass Communication from Cairo University in Egypt and later completed an intensive Media and Digital Literacy program at the Lebanese American University. In 2016, Yara started leading the media and marketing department at Ashoka Arab World. Ashoka Arab World is the regional office for Ashoka Global; the leading platform for social entrepreneurs in the world. She worked on promoting social change through leading campaigns to support and empower social ventures and nonprofit organizations in the Arab World. Yara also works as an events hostess where she hosted several high profile events in the presence of ministers, ambassadors and presidents. In addition to being chosen by the European Union as one of the most inspirational Arab youth in the EU’s being 20 series. Moreover, she was selected by the Obama Foundation in their leaders; Africa program as one of the most influential 200 young leaders changing the Future of Africa.