Fakhrriyyah Hashim

Fakhrriyyah Hashim is a social/community development advocate in Nigeria. She has been featured on multiple local and international media outlets as a social and political commentator. She has worked with multiple NGOs and development agencies such as Girl Child Concerns in the conflict ridden Borno State on multiple sustainable development initiatives. She is a finance alumnus of Abu Dhabi University, UAE. She pioneered the exploding conversation on sexual violence in Northern Nigeria through #ArewaMeToo, which drew inspiration from the global #MeToo Movement. She is a strong advocate of local economic development as the means to alleviating poverty and creating sustainable growth at the grassroots. She chaired the ” Disrupt Africa ” panel at SOAS African Development Forum 2019, UK. She is also a Poet.