December’s Young Planet Leader - Tariq Lawal
Tariq Lawal is a writer, multifaceted creative, multimedia journalist, artivist, changemaker, and budding social entrepreneur from Lagos, Nigeria. Tariq passionately advocates for social, economic, environmental, racial, and gender justice. He is a UNICEF Nigeria Young Influencer, UNODC Nigeria Young Wildlife Influencer, and 4Ocean Wavemaker.
He is also a Global Citizen 2024 Emerging Creative and the only African on the executive team of Young Journalists of America. Tariq is currently representing Nigeria on the global Youth Advisory Council for World Ocean Day. He promotes climate action, wildlife protection and ocean conservation in his community and beyond.
He believes young people are capable of driving transformative change, so it is very important they feel empowered to do so. In the fall of 2023, Tariq ventured into the streets of Lagos Island to raise awareness about pressing social and environmental issues. The story of his public demonstration was even featured by UNICEF during COP28. Since then, he has been very dedicated to community organizing and youth mobilization.
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