Ranwa Yehia

Co-founder and director of The Arab Digital Expression Foundation. She worked as a journalist, writer and researcher with a working experience in the Arab region for 15 years before moving on to focus on Arab youth empowerment since 2005 where she shifted careers to interrogate, explore, research and develop alternative education methodologies for Arab youth. In doing so, she engaged with  Arab activists from diverse disciplines who collaborated to create a program for the Arab Digital Expression Camps. Yehia was awarded the Ashoka Arab World Social Entrepreneur fellowship in 2008. The focus of her work revolves around mobilizing diverse networks to create and develop open knowledge production in Arabic. At ADEF, Yehia's focus continues to be the camps and how the methodology and knowledge developed in the camps process is transferred to communities on the ground in Egypt and other Arab countries.