By Vedant Kulkarni
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Omayma Cherkaoui is an eighteen year old university student with profound interests in economics, history, philosophy, and writing. In her workshop, ‘The Road Less Traveled By: Student Leadership for a Better World’, she will share her experiences of leadership across varied aspects from volunteering & MUN to business and enterprise, elucidating further on leadership philosophies, tips from influential leaders, and her own unique leadership story. She won ahead of everyone else in a Business Plan Competition where she made an implementable strategy for a social endeavor business thought that spent significant time in social equity, network building, and human rights advocacy. She will also share insights from her experience as Team Captain, Head Girl for her High school; concurrently achieving good grades and applying to universities effectively.
She passionately believes that the key to achieve SDG 11 is Making Cities and Human Settlements Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable, and youth enhancing their leadership skills and creating positive change in their communities therefore, she strives to seek wisdom from her unique experiences to help all the participants create positive change via this workshop.
The Inspiration strand’s subsequent segment is to address MUN conferences and how they can demonstrate expected stages to advance the SDGs thus, If you are a Model United Nations delegate, MUN Chair, or MUN student conference organizer, you will also receive meaningful MUN-related insights from her workshop as MUN filled in as the initial phase in her leadership venture.
She participates as a presenter at the Summit 2.0 to have the unique opportunity to present about her leadership journey and leadership philosophies in hopes that participants reflect on their own journey and enhance their own leadership skills to work towards achieving SDG 11. To prepare for this workshop, she has created a thought-provoking presentation regarding the importance of SDG 11 and included an interactive activity as well as her own experiences and ways in how participants can have a more fulfilling leadership journey.
With such success stories, this session can provide students with innovative ideas and, more significantly, the drive to act on local and global issues. Through thinking global and acting local, participants will be able to serve their communities better. You will know more about how you can successfully start and lead a student club to host activities and events that raise awareness and spark change and be part of a growing network of change makers.
Come be enlivened by the projects, initiatives and creative ways advancing, and propelling the SDGs. Pre-registrations for the summit are OPEN – so why miss this brilliant opportunity? Join now for a wide range of such workshops held by students and skilled experts too!