Yousra El Meeyuf
Yousra El-Meeyuf is currently in college studying Business and English Literature in the UK and activism takes up a huge part of their life. Yousra is constantly trying to learn and unlearn things in order to create a safe environment for friends, peers and strangers. They believe it’s incredibly important for society to be able to hold conversations like the ones they have witnessed every time they have attended a WOW Festival. Yousra believes we must celebrate life and critique it so that we can unpick the biases sewn into our societies.
“There's this book I recently read that I'd like everyone to read called Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. It's about the slave trade and how two sisters went through two different routes and the effect that had on their future generations. It's beautifully written and incredibly insightful.”