This panel celebrates courageous African leaders and innovators of today who are creating positive change in government, law, social justice, and creative activism. Join us for a panel with two Yale World Fellows—Fauziya Ali, founder and President of Women in International Security-Horn of Africa (WIIS-HoA), a Kenyan-based organization that works towards gender, peace and security initiatives and researcher of the most downloaded UNDP report “Journey to extremism in Africa” to date which she later turned into a toolkit available as a mobile application; Ibou Niang, Head of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa Guinea office; and Michael Kalisa, lawyer, transitional justice expert and Legal Specialist with the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative in the Central African Republic—as they discuss their journeys, their current work, and their perspectives on the future of innovation in Africa and around the globe.