Toluwalashe Soyemi

Experience

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  Common Purpose

  Feb 2017 - Feb 2017

  Alumnus
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  Africa Development Initiative

  Apr 2017 - Dec 2017

  Project Director
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  Students For Liberty

  Sept 2017 - Aug 2018

  Local Coordinator
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  Protostar Initiative

  Jan 2018 - Mar 2022

  Co-Founder

  Currently running a nonprofit organization whose mission primary focus is mental health information and education. In lieu to the international pandemic, we recently created an online platform that allows people to ask questions on mental health and seek mental health counselling with our volunteer professionals while allowing people to share their stories and experiences on mental health through the platform.

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  Hult Prize Foundation

  Jan 2018 - Feb 2019

  Campus Director

  Also called the "Nobel prize" for students, I fast- tracked a global competition by organizing a local edition of the competition with all funds raised by my team. I effectively managed several teams with team leaders including publicity team, fundraising and the recruitment of high profile judges

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  Millennium Campus Network

  Aug 2018 - Dec 2019

  Campus Director

  Selected as Campus Director with the United Nations Millenium Fellowship. Led and organized in my university one of the first 3 cohorts in Nigeria. Organized and facilitated (with my co-director) monthly sessions on social impact and leadership for 3 months for about 20 fellows.

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  The Platform Young Professionals

  Sept 2018 - Sept 2018

  Fellow
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  Peace First

  Apr 2020 - Oct 2021

  Providing detailed feedback on young people's projects quality and design and engaging those that have shown courage, compassion and utilizing collaborative leadership to create social change in Sub-saharan Africa while modelling integrity without bias in responding to their projects.

  • Country Ambassador

    Nov 2020 - Oct 2021

  • Peer Support Mentor

    Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
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  Grant Master

  Mar 2021 - Mar 2022

  Grants Writer

  Selected as one of the top grant writers in Nigeria for the leading grant writing organization in Nigeria.

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  Born This Way Foundation

  May 2021 - Oct 2022

  Advisory Board Member

  For the next 12 months, I will be playing a pivotal role by providing high level consultative inputs in the planning and execution of programs, campaigns, and projects core to the Foundation’s mission: (1) making kindness cool, (2) validating the emotions of young people everywhere, and (3) eliminating the stigma surrounding mental health.

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  Orygen

  May 2021 - Jan 2022

  Global Mental Health Advocacy Fellow

  Among the 12 selected young people from a worldwide application on the fellowship program.The Orygen Global Youth Mental Health Advocacy Fellowship is a six-month program for 10 young people from across the globe who are passionate about youth mental health and want to create change in the mental health landscape of their country. The fellowship has been established to build the capacity, skills and voices of young people to create positive change in mental health awareness, policy and systems reform. Show less

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  Initiative For National Growth Africa (Special Needs Initiative For Growth)

  Sept 2021 - Jun 2022

  Grants Consultant
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  Grand Challenges Canada

  Dec 2021 - Feb 2022

  Innovation Reviewer

  Grand Challenges Canada’s Global Mental Health program supports Bold Ideas with Big Impact®. The aim of the program is to seed and transition to scale high impact innovations that support the mental health needs of underserved individuals, in particular young people, in low-and middleincome countries.My work as an Innovation Screen reviewer involved evaluating the relevance of the applications to the funding call and assessing their innovativeness within the global mental health space. In addition, I provided constructive feedback to applicants on the strengths and areas of improvement for their applications. Show less

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  The Diana Award

  Mar 2022 - Feb 2023

  2022 Diana Award Judge

  Established in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, The Diana Award is the most prestigious accolade a young person aged 9-25 years can receive for their social action or humanitarian work.

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  UNLEASH - Innovation lab for SDGs

  Dec 2022 - Dec 2022

  UN SDG TALENT

  Was selected from a pool of over 8,000 international top talents based on my knowledge, passion and commitment to solving global challenges and will be joining fellow change-makers dedicated to global sustainability.UNLEASH is a global innovation lab that gathers 1,000 talents all around the world annually to collaborate on solutions to promote the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

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  Solve - MIT

  Feb 2023 - Feb 2023

  Reviewer
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  Millennium Campus Network (MCN)

  Jul 2023 - Jan 2024

  Program Coordinator

  I am responsible for the administrative and logistical elements of operations and programming for the 2023 year of the Millennium Fellowship. As a thought partner in the continued development, implementation and growth of the Fellowship program as it expands to undergraduate students across the globe, I lead in making recommendations and edits to future Fellowship iterations based on 2018-2022 learnings.

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  Resolution Project

  Nov 2023 - now

  Mentor
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  Enactus

  May 2024 - now

  Action with Africa Judge