Maryam Boukhar Hassan, the UN’s first global advocate for peace, urges action through poetry and youth-led digital campaigns Maryam Boukhar Hassan, a Nigerian spoken-word artist and the United Nations' first global advocate for peace, recited a stanza of her poem and described how childhood experiences of violence, a viral video, and her True My Voice program inform her plans to use digital storytelling and partnerships to translate suffering into policy and action.

Maryam Boukhar Hassan, the UN's first global advocate for peace, transforms her painful childhood experiences into powerful poetry and youth-led initiatives to spark real change.

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