REGIONAL LEADERS

The Youth Coalition is constantly organizing, leading, and facilitating different activities to connect with you to lead road safety initiatives around the world. To help us in these efforts, we appointed regional leaders to make sure that everyone in the Youth Coalition is duly represented.

The role of this group is to meaningfully engage young leaders on a regional scale, mobilizing and engaging them to impact road safety in their local communities positively. The regional leaders play a crucial role in bringing the benefits of the Global Youth Coalition to local and regional groups of changemakers; through localized activities and opportunities.

We have regional leaders for the following regions; Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America.

rEGIONAL LEADERS OF ASIA

Mariam Kukava, Georgia

Mariam has participated in many successful projects to promote road safety and sustainable urban transport through research, advocacy, educational and awareness-raising activites in Georgia. She works at the Partnership for Road Safety Foundation as a project coordinator and communication and advocacy specialist. She is responsible for designing and coordinating road safety projects and more.

Musab Al Jallad, Jordan

Musab is a Transport Consultant at Engicon, a multidisciplinary engineering consulting firm based in Amman, Jordan, He worked on several transport and road safety projects in Jordan, the UK, and the Middle East. Musab holds a master’s degree in Transport Engineering and Planning from the University of Salford (UK). His interests include sustainable mobility, parking management, urban planning, and infrastructure design. 

Shagun Sharma, India

Shagun is from Delhi, India currently working as an Analyst with Sattva as a Country Ambassador. She also works with Peace First as a Youth Panelist with Global Youth Mobilization Fund and sd an advisor with Vrikshit Foundation. She is an accredited Mental Health First Aider as well. She recently represented Restless Development and #YouthPower in Global Goals Week at Expo 2020 Dubai.

REGIONAL LEADERS OF AFRICA

Regatu Solomon, Ethiopia

Regatu is a Civil Engineer with a Master's degree in Road and Transport Engineering. She has been working on promoting sustainable transport modes and road safety for the past six years. She currently works for the Institution and Development Policy (ITDP) Africa as a transport planning consultant.

tendekayi marapara, zimbabwe

Tendekayi is Transport Safety Engineer for WSP New Zealand and is a certified Youth Star for Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) developed by the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP)

olufunke afesojaye, nigeria

Olufunke is a development expert who specializes in the development of institutions for the betterment of the world. She has worked with different organizations to implement projects, mobilize communities, create awareness, collect data, and more. She is passionate about rural development and people in hard-to-reach communities.

REGIONAL LEADER OF EUROPE

Christine Kanana Baariu, belgium

Christine works closely with TSN (Transportation Sciences Network under the Hasselt University). In 2022 she co-led the Safer Roads Now, a winning Local Actions Project by TSN. She is currently pursuing a Master in Transportation Sciences with a specialization in Road Safety at the University of Hasselt in Belgium. She is a graduate civil engineer with over three years of experience in infrastructure.

REGIONAL LEADERS OF LATIN AMERICA

Eziquiel Naidich, Argentina

Eziquiel is the Education and Road Safety coordinator at MiNU Civil Association. He works in the planification and implementation of educational, awareness and advocacy projects to improve Road Safety in Argentina. With MiNU, he won the Local Actions 2022 award with a project on distracted driving behavior that is being implemented.

Sofia Aguirre Moreno, Argentina

Sofía is a 27 year-old Argentine. She has a degree in Film Direction and completed her studies in Cultural Affairs and Creative and Cultural Industries Management. Currently working as an audiovisual specialist for the National Judiciary and as a volunteer firefighter, she brings all of her passions together taking part in road safety projects and networks.

Jacques Aristote Magloire, Haiti

Co-founder and Executive Director of TRAJEC3RS, Jacques is passionate about road safety and has been working in the road safety field for over five years. He is a philanthropist and very active and versatile as he is involved in multiple social initiatives in his motherland, Haiti.  

REGIONAL LEADERS OF NORTH AMERICA

Kendra Nayankaosa, CANADA

Kendra is an active grade 11 student with passionate to make teens’ lives healthy and safe. The youngest member of the Canadian Road Safety Council, founder of Girls Fun Tennis - a program to keep girls in tennis, active in many organizations and aspires to be an engineer: to make a device to improve road safety.

JACOB SMITH, USA

Jacob is a driven car crash survivor, speaker, and activist. He has his own consultancy in road safety and mobility justice; delivering high-impact community organizing for transforming mobility access in underserved communities. He is also the Senior Director of the National Organization for Youth Safety. Since 2014, he has presented at over 190 conferences and led projects in 10 states, mobilizing youth for safe and sustainable road safety.

YASMINe AL MOGHRABI, USA

Yasmine is a Lebanese young leader named one of the top 10% of changemakers around the world who has taken action on behalf of the Global Goals. She holds a master's degree in Road Safety Management and a master's degree in Highway, Transportation, and Traffic Engineering. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering in the USA and she is passionate about road safety. Currently, she is a regional road safety leader in North America chosen by the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety.