Emtithal Mahmoud

World champion poet and goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Emtithal Mahmoud advocates for refugees and disadvantaged communities the world over. In 2018, she walked 1,000 kilometers for peace from Darfur to Khartoum, mobilizing thousands ahead of Sudan’s 2019 revolution. In 2020, she served as an independent, unaffiliated adviser to the Juba peace talks, creating unprecedented recommendations on civil liberties, gender equality, refugee rights and more