Mayada Adil is a Sudanese medical doctor, fashion designer, women’s rights advocate for health equity and a refugee rights activist. Based in France, Mayada has worked on focused on ending gender-based violence, specifically against female genital mutilation in Sudan and Mali.
Mayada was selected by the French Foreign Ministry to represent Sudanese youth at the Paris Conference for Sudan in 2021, where she also addressed the French President Emmanuel Macron and emphasized the important role of the youth in facilitating a democratic transition and enacting political and economic change. Mayada has also represented Sudanese women at the Generation Equality Forum, where she addressed the importance of integrating refugee women in societies and communities across France.
Mayada co-founded the artistic platform, which aims to outreach to refugee artists around the world to provide them with an opportunity to participate in a training programme that can help develop their skills and create “art clinics”.
She is also recognized as a climate advocate and creative champion of the We!Are campaign by Crtve Development — a pan-African social agency that champions change on the African continent through storytelling and campaigning on key issues, including climate justice, food security, gender equality, health equity, migration, and peace.