Yaa Kpodo Edusei is the founder of Femishare Foundation, a girl-centered organization that has reached over 4,000 girls through mentorship and empowerment, trained 40 out-of-school women in vocational skills and provided start-ups to help them build lives on their own terms in underserved communities across Ghana.
On the global stage, Yaa has carried Ghana’s girls with her everywhere she goes. As a SHE Leads UN Advocacy Network representative of Ghana by Plan International, one of just 18 young advocates from nine countries, she brought Ghanaian girls’ voices into rooms where global policy is shaped. She now serves as one of only 11 adolescent girl leaders globally in Women Deliver’s Girls Deliver Adolescent Co-Creation Group, co- designing a post-2030 roadmap that will influence how the world invests in and protects adolescent girls for generations to come.
Yaa met with Lynne Foley OAM, host of the Remarkable Women, Powerful Stories podcast, to discuss her first-hand experience as a nurse about what happens when needs go unmet and how she aims to bring these stories to the forefront of policy discussions. Moreover, as a leader, if she cannot see these needs addressed, she becomes the one to make the change.
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