Leading Change: Youth-Led Feminist Activism for Gender Transformative Education

Start Date: October 1 2023

End Date: August 30 2025

Funding Source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Principal Investigator: Catherine Vanner

Co-Investigators: Valerie Alexander, Meenal Singh

Collaborating Institutions: Transform Education; United Nations Girls Education Initiative and Plan International

The Leading Change project sought to understand the experiences of youth activists advocating transnationally for gender transformative education. It was conducted in partnership with Transform Education, a network of over 400 youth-led activists and organizations from around the world. This project used a digital storytelling approach involving virtual focus groups and individual digital storytelling creation with 12 youth activists from 11 countries across Africa and Asia.

Publication

Gender transformative education as explained by youth feminist activists

Author: Dr. Catherine Vanner

Published in: Gender and Education

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2506357

Abstract:

Gender transformative education is a concept gaining ascendance, in part because of the advocacy of youth feminist activists… Read more

Digital Stories Created Through the Leading Change Project

Bound by Solidarity by Farrah Munawar

Syllabus to Solidarity by Esther Ezem

Dreamer by Maya Kornelia Musa

Infinite by Chea Engmey

Reimagining Activism Yande Banda

Rising Voices by Baraka Damien

Small Steps Matter by Maryada Neupane

Space for Me by Njeri Maria

A Tribute to Gufasha Moureen
by Joan Kembabazi

The World of Code by Isabel

Report

Leading Change Report.pdf

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