Founder / Member, Board of Trustee
Abiodun Essiet
She is currently the National Director for Women, Gender and Development Affairs of Africa Youth for Development Commission, and the Head of State for Nigeria in model ECOWAS Summit 2018, Accra Ghana. She serves as a Board Member and Health Consultant for Strong Enough Girls Empowerment Initiative, and a volunteer for Baobab for women's human rights.
Member, Board of Trustee
Onyinye A. Edeh, MPH
Onyinye (Own-Yin-Yay) Edeh is a Nigerian-American native of Akpugo town in Enugu state, Nigeria. A Global Health professional and researcher, Onyinye obtained her Master of Public Health and Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology & Anthropology from the University of Washington-Seattle and Agnes Scott College (Decatur, GA), respectively. She holds graduate-level certificates in the Global Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children and in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research from the Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER).
Onyinye is a contagiously passionate advocate for girls’ and women’s empowerment and for sexual and reproductive health education and services for young people. She is the Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer (CEO) of Strong Enough Girls' Empowerment Initiative (SEGEI), a youth and female-led non-profit organization that empowers adolescent girls and young women through education (formal & informal), mentorship, and life skills development.
From 2016-2018, Onyinye completed a remarkable two-year fellowship with the Institute of Current World Affairs (ICWA) in Nigeria and the Republic of Niger whereby she examined critical issues impacting the lives of girls, notably child marriage, female genital mutilation, girls’ access to education and empowerment. She