Overview
Why do you want to join youthpower
How I want to make an Impact

The YouthLead Programme is a leading platform for young changemakers and community leaders to elevate their work in mobilizing the youth of their communities. It can be recognized as an empowerment platform for youth empowerment advocates. Hence as an Advocate for Youth Empowerment the predominant reason why I wish to join the YouthLead Programme is to utilize the myriad of opportunities provided by it, to streamline my advocacy efforts for youth development. I also believe that the YouthLead Programme offers an invaluable opportunity to network with fellow youth leaders and learn from their advocacy journeys. Thirdly. YouthLead provides me an apt platform to draw the attention of the international youth developmental system to the ideology of (YEI) as a sustainable avenue for youth development, as it emphasises the importance of top-level youth development and inter-stakeholder partnership creation for inclusive youth empowerment.
 

My current advocacy work is focused on mainstreaming Youth Empowerment Incubation (YEI) for sustainable youth development. Streamlining the existing national, regional and international youth development systems through YEI, is the mark I wish to leave in the world; it is the impact I wish to make. I have begun this journey by establishing and leading Sri Lanka’s first Youth Empowerment Incubator, namely, Hype Sri Lanka, which bears the vision of serving as a catalyst for inclusive and sustainable youth development. I wish to globalize the YEI ideology within the next ten years by creating the Hype Global Youth Empowerment Incubation movement.

 

Short biography
5. I am a youth empowerment advocate specializing in the niche area of Youth Empowerment Incubation (YEI). I am the Founder and President of Hype Sri Lanka which is the country's first youth empowerment incubator. I am also the Founding President of the Young Legal Professionals Association of Sri Lanka. I was appointed as the United Nations Youth Delegate for Sri Lanka in 2016 in recognition of my community service and youth leadership. In this capacity I worked as a Youth Focal Point to the National Youth Services Council and the Ministry of National Policies and Economic Affairs. I have also served as the Global Ambassador for Sri Lanka for Youth Opportunities in 2018. I am a Women Deliver Young Leader of 2020 and the recipient of The Diana Award 2020. In terms of my professional and academic background, I am an Attorney-at-Law who has completed her LLB at the University of London and her BA specializing in Development Policy and Management Economics at the University of Colombo. I am also a Chevening Scholar 2020 who is starting my Masters in International Economic Law, Justice and Development at Birkbeck, University of London, from October this year.
Networks
  • 9. One World Volunteer
  • Volunteer of the V-Force
  • South Asian Youth Conference
  • Former United Nations Youth Delegate
  • Youth Opportunities Ambassador Programme
  • Commonwealth Youth Forum
  • Women Deliver
  • The Diana Award
  • Global Youth Aspirations Programme
  • Citizens
  • Hype Sri Lanka
  • Young Legal Professionals Association of Sri Lanka
  • The Model United Nations Circuit of Sri Lanka
  • The Debating Circuit of Sri Lanka
  • The Chevening Scholarship.
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Country
Sri Lanka
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Education
 Enrolled at Birkbeck, University of London to follow an LLM in International Economic Law, Justice and Development through The Chevening Scholarship (October 2020 to October 2021)
 Currently following the Post Diploma in International Relations at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (October 2019 to December 2020)
 Completed the Attorney-at-Law professional qualification at Sri Lanka Law College (2016 to 2019)
 Completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Specializing in Development Policy and Management Economics at the Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo (2016 to 2020)
 Completed an LLB with a Second Upper Award from the University of London (International Programmes) via Horizon Campus, Malabe (2015 to 2019)
 Completed a Diploma in International Relations offered by the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (2015 to 2016)
 Completed a Beginners Course in Spanish offered by the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (2014 to 2015)
 Certificate Course in Computer Science from the National Institute for Business Management (NIBM) (2010 to 2011)
 Completed the Advanced Level Examinations in the subjects, Economics, Geography and English Literature with 2As and 1B and with an Z Score of 1.872
Languages spoken
English