Fatimata is a first year student attending Lafayette College. She is studying Government and Law and International Affairs. She is a former member of Harvard University’s Making Caring Common Youth Advisory Board. During her time on the board along with the 24 other members Fatimata worked to create a more kind and compassionate environment at her high school through different initiatives and projects such as “thank you notes”.
Fatimata also worked to create a more inclusive environment in the field of sciences. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Junior Academy that works alongside The New York Academy of Sciences to help build the world’s next leaders. Every year, students from around the globe work on a virtual platform to solve some of the world’s greatest problems which align with UN Sustainable Development Goals set for 2030.
In her time at the White Mountain School she served as the community service club president completing over 700 hours of community service. She won the Samuel Robinson Community service award for two years at the White Mountain School. Furthermore, she served as the diversity club president and was on the diversity and inclusion committee. Helping to start the first ever affinity groups at her school, and helped to lead discussions on Martin Luther King Jr. day.
She was also chosen among many applicants to become a delegate to the United Nations at their winter Youth Assembly. She was also a Girl Up teen advisor to the United Nations Foundation. Feminism means a lot to me because it is really important for young girls to get equal representation in any setting that they work in.
In 2019, Fatimata published her first short book of poetry titled Perfectly Imperfect using poetry as a tool to talk about the issues most important to her. Later, Fatimata won the 2019 Spiritual Influencer award for her work in activism in the Gambian and Senegalese Community.
Fatimata is also the founder of several projects such as Muslims Matter which she created to help spread awareness about the issues facing Muslims around the globe. She also founded the Les Etoiles Project to help spread awareness about access to mental health resources in public school education.
Based on her own personal experiences Fatimata works to create a more equitable world, a more sustainable world. She believes in the importance of socioeconomic equality because she grew up in a low-income households. She belives in gender equality because as a woman of color and as a Muslim women she sees how her community has been disproportionality impacted.
Fatimata hopes to work for the United Nations and serve as a Human Rights Lawyer and future Mayor of New York City.
Fatimata is a first year student attending Lafayette College. She is studying Government and Law and International Affairs. She is a former member of Harvard University’s Making Caring Common Youth Advisory Board. During her time on the board along with the 24 other members Fatimata worked to create a more kind and compassionate environment at her high school through different initiatives and projects such as “thank you notes”.
Fatimata also worked to create a more inclusive environment in the field of sciences. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Junior Academy that works alongside The New York Academy of Sciences to help build the world’s next leaders. Every year, students from around the globe work on a virtual platform to solve some of the world’s greatest problems which align with UN Sustainable Development Goals set for 2030.
In her time at the White Mountain School she served as the community service club president completing over 700 hours of community service. She won the Samuel Robinson Community service award for two years at the White Mountain School. Furthermore, she served as the diversity club president and was on the diversity and inclusion committee. Helping to start the first ever affinity groups at her school, and helped to lead discussions on Martin Luther King Jr. day.
She was also chosen among many applicants to become a delegate to the United Nations at their winter Youth Assembly. She was also a Girl Up teen advisor to the United Nations Foundation. Feminism means a lot to me because it is really important for young girls to get equal representation in any setting that they work in.
In 2019, Fatimata published her first short book of poetry titled Perfectly Imperfect using poetry as a tool to talk about the issues most important to her. Later, Fatimata won the 2019 Spiritual Influencer award for her work in activism in the Gambian and Senegalese Community.
Fatimata is also the founder of several projects such as Muslims Matter which she created to help spread awareness about the issues facing Muslims around the globe. She also founded the Les Etoiles Project to help spread awareness about access to mental health resources in public school education.
Based on her own personal experiences Fatimata works to create a more equitable world, a more sustainable world. She believes in the importance of socioeconomic equality because she grew up in a low-income households. She belives in gender equality because as a woman of color and as a Muslim women she sees how her community has been disproportionality impacted.
Fatimata hopes to work for the United Nations and serve as a Human Rights Lawyer and future Mayor of New York City.
