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Brian Malika (born 10th August 1992) , is a Kenyan Journalist.
Brian Malika has founded One More Percent, which is a media organization that only publishes voices of minorities and marginalized populations like youth living in slums, people with disabilities, and women in rural areas.
In 2016, Brian Malika was part of the inaugural United Nations Youth Forum where he represented Kenya in drafting the UN Youth Declaration on the SDGs at the 14th session of the High-Level United Nations Conference on Trade And Development.
In 2017 Brian Malika participated in drafting the Global Health Report during the International Association Of Adolescent Health Congress (IAAH) as a delegate for adolescents living in slums. Still, in 2017, Brain Malika was appointed to join the British Council Youth Task Force where he was part of a high-level youth delegation in Kenya that drafted Kenya’s Youth Employment Report.
In 2018, Brian Malika was awarded a fellowship by the US State Department to travel to the United States and research inclusive disability employment techniques that can be emulated in Kenya. After his sixweek research in the US, Brian Malika was awarded 25,000 US Dollars by the US Embassy in Nairobi to train 250 girls and young women from rural parts of western Kenya on how to use policy as an important tool to advocate for equal employment rights for women with disabilities.
In 2019, Brain Malika wrote an article on how bicycles can be used to enable girls living in far-flank areas to reach schools faster. This article was published with the World Economic Forum during the actual 2019 Davos Summit.
In 2021 Brian Malika was accepted to join the Global Civil Society Advisory Board at the Tech For Democracy through an initiative of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he has been influential in representing voices of marginalized civil societies from Africa in being included in the Copenhagen Pledge.
Recently, Brian Malika has been appointed to be a Dalai Lama Global Fellow for the year 2022-2023. Through the invitation of Senator Tom Harkins, Brian Malika will be a key speaker at the 2022 Harkins Disability Summit in Belfast (Northern Ireland), where he will discuss the role of media in shaping narratives around Disability.
Brian Malika was named among the global youth winners for his social innovation to protect grassroots human rights defenders using online platforms to report on corruption during the Covid 19 Pandemic.
Brian Malika is a contributor at Morocco's Maghreb Economic Forum, writes for Kenya's Star Newspaper, is a resident writer with Lebanon's leading English Newspaper called Jordan Times, and also is a columnist with Nepal's Kathmandu Post.