Board Members

Founder / Member, Board of Trustee
Founder / Member, Board of Trustee

Abiodun Essiet

Abiodun is a founder and member board of trustees of the Abiodun Essiet Initiative for Girls (AEIG), a Non-Governmental organization dealing with youth and women empowerment. She is a Mandela Washington fellow, also a fellow of Coady international institute Canada.

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.
 
Abiodun is actively engaged in public service, volunteerism, and mentoring. She started “35% Inclusion Movements”; a grassroots movement aimed at reaching 35% inclusion of women in decision-making positions towards the 2019 Nigeria general election. She created a social media network known as the Young Africa Women Leaders Network to Mentor young women across Africa on politics and leadership development. She also uses this platform to share her political journal as an aspirant for the next general election in Nigeria.
Member, Board of Trustee
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

 

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AEIG is a non-profit organization that was formerly known as “Shoyemi Abiodun Foundation against teenage pregnancy.

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