2022 Arts Young Alumni Award recipient, Lehlé Baldé
Lehlé Baldé is actively contributing to a better world as a financial inclusion advocate, journalist, newspaper editor, radio anchor, event host, moderator and producer. Her media advocacy bridges inclusion and financial literacy with a core focus on sustainable development goals that spotlight economic inclusion. She was listed in the Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 Class of 2022 and is an International Monetary Fund Youth Fellow. She is also an Acumen fellow, a group of impact-driven leaders tackling the world's most significant problems. As well, Lehlé won the Future Award Africa for intrapreneurship, she was named among the top 50 women in media in Africa by the Media Awards, and the top 50 women in development by Donors Africa.
As a young alumnus, Lehlé has successfully established an incredible career for herself, most known for working at BusinessDay as a Pioneer Editor BusinessDay Weekender in Lagos, Nigeria. She is also a brand ambassador for Sparkle PLC, a leading digital bank that holds transparency and trust as core values, and she has been professionally running and hosting business events since 2017. She is currently building the Women's Digital Financial Inclusion Hub, a coalition of private-public partnerships for coordinated advocacy on women's financial inclusion, and is in the process of writing her first book.