Alfousseni Sidibe

Alfousseni Sidibe has over seven years’ experience in the agricultural community-development sector. Alfousseni Sidibe served as communications manager for President Obama’s global hunger and food-security project, Feed the Future, where he focused on communication activities to inform beneficiaries about improved technologies to increase income. In 2016 Alfousseni joined the USAID Mali Justice Project as communication and outreach coordinator. He is also founder and CEO of the personal development startup, LYD (Live Your Dream). LYD empowers young students with public speaking, leadership, entrepreneurship, and English skills, and has a special mentoring program for young girls. With a master’s in English from the University of Bamako and a bachelor’s in Business Administration, Alfousseni is the founding president of the Bamako English Toastmasters Club, the first English club in Mali. After the Fellowship, Alfousseni plans to continue empowering the youth with innovative programs on entrepreneurship to tackle the unemployment that is leading to terrorism. Stayed in Africa.