11 Facts About Aya Chebbi

Aya Chebbi, is a Tunisian diplomat, and a pan-African and feminist activist.

Aya Chebbi became the first appointed African Union Envoy on Youth in November 2018.

Aya Chebbi is referred to as a Pan-African Feminist and a well known blogger.

Aya Chebbi's blogs were published on OpenDemocracy and Al-Jazeera among numerous media outlets.

Aya Chebbi subsequently traveled across the African continent to support and train thousands of social movement leaders and activists on mobilization, blogging, leadership and non-violence as a scholar, mentor, speaker and activist.

In 2013, Aya Chebbi co-founded with her feminist friends and bloggers, Konda Delphine from Cameroon and Rose Wachuka from Kenya, the Voice of Women initiative, a feminist collective that empowers women through advocacy and access to the digital space.

Aya Chebbi was appointed as an emissary of Tunisian youth in 32nd summit of the African Union in Addis Ababa.

In November 2018, Aya Chebbi was appointed as the first African Union Special Envoy on Youth by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat for a two-year mandate to serve as a representative and advocate for the voices and interests of African youths.

In June 2019, Aya Chebbi was featured in the Visual Collaborative Polaris catalogue, under the Voyager series for humanities, she was interviewed alongside 25 people from around the world such as; Seun Kuti, Berla Mundi and Dawn Okoro.

Since 2020, Aya Chebbi has been serving as a member of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, an independent group examining how the World Health Organization and countries handled the COVID-19 pandemic, co-chaired by Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

Aya Chebbi became a world renown blogger and commentator since Tunisia's Revolution and her pieces have been published by numerous Regional and Global media outfits.