Jeremiah Emmanuel

Jeremiah Emmanuel is a youth activist, speaker, and entrepreneur. Raised in a single-parent family in sound London, he started working within his local community at the age of four, campaigning around issues affecting young people in his community with the Nelson Mandela School Foundation. In 2011 Jeremiah was elected into the UK Youth Parliament and later became a young mayor within London. Aged 15, he founded the BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra Youth Council and created a youth consultancy enterprise, EMNL, which has recently worked with Rolls-Royce, Nike and the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust. He is a member of the Gates Foundation, a youth ambassador for the Big Change Charitable Trust and a Founding Member of The Conduit London. In 2017, he was awarded a British Empire Medal for his charitable activities.

 

Twitter: @je1bc