Hewan Solomon Areaya

Hewan Solomon Areaya is a women’s rights advocate and a Campaign Organizer in a youth initiative called the Yellow Movement AAU, which works on women’s rights advocacy and women’s empowerment. Her role as a campaign organizer includes organizing weekly activism, a blood drive for maternal mortality eradication, and fundraisers to support female students who are in dire need of financial assistance,based in Ethiopia. Hewan Solomon Areaya is a full-time feminist who will do whatever it takes to bridge the gap in societal construction of gender views. Upon completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, she will continue to impact her community in positive ways by working on advocacy and women’s empowerment.