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Age: 25

Country: Haiti

Nominating Entity: WorldYWCA

Adrianna Sosa (she/her) is a young woman activist born and currently based in Haiti. She has been a board member of the World YWCA since 2019 and is currently serving a second term as Vice President of the board.. For the past six years, she has been committed to peacebuilding and community development, working at a grassroots level as a project coordinator at the YWCA Haiti.

Her work is primarily centred on designing and implementing projects aimed at preventing and addressing gender-based violence for youth and young women coming from increasingly at-risk communities of the metropolitan region of P¨¦tion-Ville and its surroundings. A key component of these projects is creating awareness of mental health and well-being, providing professional psycho-social support to survivors of violence, as well as providing young women with adequate professional skills to be autonomised and enter the labour market.

Adrianna has a background in Business Administration and has hands-on experience in institutional governance, financial management, resource mobilising and program development. She is currently a member of the Young People in the Ecumenical Movement Commission of the World Council of Churches and a member of the Act Alliance Youth Community of Practice. Adrianna is committed to advocating for social justice, gender equality and a peaceful world that can only be sustainable if women and youth are at the forefront of it.