NAME
Malala Yousafzai
OCCUPATION
Children's Activist, Women's Rights Activist
BIRTH DATE
July 12, 1997 (age 21)
PLACE OF BIRTH
Mingora, Pakistan
ZODIAC SIGN
Cancer
Catalysts For Change
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
“Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow.”
“Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.”
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education advocate who, at the age of 17, became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Born on July 12, 1997, Yousafzai became an advocate for girls' education when she herself was still a child, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. She survived and has continued to speak out on the importance of education. In 2013, she gave a speech to the United Nations and published her first book, I Am Malala. In 2014, she won the Nobel Peace Prize.