Unleashlab

Confronting Hard Truths

UNLEASH 2019 kicks off with a storytelling seminar that stresses the critical importance of honesty — even when it is…

Starting from the why: Innovation Champions from UNLEASH to UNDP

My Unleash Experience in 6 Points.

Last Friday (the 8th of June, 2018) I arrived home from the Unleash summit in Singapore. Exhausted…

Heartless in Paris

Note: This story is being posted for another author, Danisley Jayson, who lives in Cuba and does not have access to Medium. She is one of the talents selected from more than 100 countries who are participating in UNLEASH, an innovation lab that annually convenes 1,000 millennial thought leaders…

One year later: how UNLEASH changed my course

Last year, I was selected as a member of the inaugural cohort for the UNLEASH Innovation Lab, which took place last August in Denmark. UNLEASH is a global innovation lab, convening 1,000 carefully selected millennial thought leaders from all over the…

Tales of Child Marriage

These are stories of two young girls I interviewed in my job as a journalist in Kenya. Names have been withheld to protect their identities.

“My father sat me down while I was 12-years-old, in class 6, and told me - ‘My daughter, you are now a grown up girl…

Democratizing Inspiration and Providing Personalized Mentoring: Insights from Network Capital

The Premise of Change

Up to this day, on May 14th 2018, 7 622 110 000 people are walking on this Earth. They all have dreams, hopes and ambitions. They all have a mind of their own, different from all.

I am one of this very people with a distinct story, a mind of her own, her own set of…

My 10th Birthday!

This is the story of a young girl I interviewed in my job as a journalist in Kenya. I have withheld her name to protect her identity.

“When I was 10-years-old, my parents subjected me to female genital mutilation. Little did I know that the practice was meant to usher me…

Why #ItTakesUsAllKE to End Violence Against Children

PICTURE THIS: At the age of 15 your parents have already negotiated your bride price. You’re still in school thinking about books & your dreams in life. Then one evening during the school holidays, you are invited to a room by a few elderly women who came to ‘visit your…