Malala Yousafzai — Conference on World Affairs Closing Speaker
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and education activist closes CU Boulder's 78th Conference on World Affairs with a keynote address.
Why we picked this
The youngest Nobel laureate closes a four-day ideas conference that's been running for 78 years. Worth the drive to Boulder.
Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban at age 15 for advocating girls’ education in Pakistan. She survived, won the Nobel Peace Prize at 17, graduated from Oxford, and built a global fund that has invested in education for millions of girls. She’s also become an investor in women’s sports and a voice for a generation that refuses to accept the world as it is.
She closes CU Boulder’s 78th Conference on World Affairs — a four-day festival of ideas that brings together thinkers, leaders, and creators from around the world. The conference itself (April 13-16) is free and covers art, business, international affairs, politics, media, science, and technology. Malala’s closing keynote at Macky Auditorium is the headline event, kicking off CU’s 150th anniversary celebration.