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10th Anniversary Special

‘It starts with me’ campaign for East
London. ‘It starts with me’ is the national
2009
HIV prevention campaign for England, run
by the Terrence Higgins Trust.
2019
AMBROSE COOKE
COO, Fanbytes
Ambrose was featured in the Top 10
of the 2014-15 edition of the magazine
as he was just completing his second year
of a Mechanical Engineering
degree at Imperial College London.
His original Future Leaders profile lists
a handful of promising accomplishments
in the start-up world, including being
the co-founder of Bandzie.com – a
music website which aimed to deepen
the relationship between fans and their
favourite artists by creating opportunities
JENNIFER for them to interact.
OGUNDEMUREN Since then, Ambrose has gone on to form
what can be described as a more refined
JENNIFER OGUNDEMUREN verion of Bandzie called Fanybytes, which
Public Health Professional helps brands such as Nickelodeon, Adidas,
2014-15’s number three, Jennifer Universal Music and Charlotte Tilbury AMBROSE COOKE
Ogundemuren, graduated with a 2:1 in Law Beauty run branded collaborations with
(LLB) from the University of Birmingham. social influencers on YouTube, Instagram,
After graduation she enrolled at the Snapchat and Vine. Currently the World’s
London School of Hygiene and Tropical #1 Snapchat Advertising Network, it has TEMI MWALE
Medicine – University of London, where been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post Founder and CEO, The 4Front Project
she did a master of science degree. and The Daily Mail. Temi Mwale was our number two Future
Since graduating, she has moved into the While on the Future Leaders-affiliated Leader in 2015. At the time she was a
health arena and is a dedicated public Powerlist Foundation leadership first year student at the London School
health professional, working in London programme in 2013, Ambrose met his of Economics, studying Law. Since
to increase HIV testing rates among now business partner Timothy Armoo. graduating in 2017 she has gone on to
black people of African heritage. This has In 2016, an article in the Daily Mail become a multi award-winning social
involved successfully leading the planning valued Fanbytes as a seven-figure entrepreneur, educator and activist.
and execution of the 2017 National company. Like most of those highlighted here, the
roots of what she is doing now were
formed at university, or to be fair even
TEMI MWALE before that. But while at university she
was already running her own organisation
called Get Outta the Gang, later renamed
The 4Front Project, to raise awareness of
the causes of and solutions to violence,
and to deliver interventions to support
young people affected by it. Temi was
inspired to set it up, in 2012, by the death
of a close childhood friend through knife
crime in her local borough of Barnet.
The enterprise delivers workshops and
programmes to young people across
London, has been involved in policy work
with various political parties and has
held events to advocate on behalf of
young people. Temi has also campaigned
against deaths in police custody, and was
a core member for the Justice for Mark
Duggan Campaign.
In 2016, Temi was sought by UN WOMEN
to consult on the youth strategy and
implementation of the Sustainable
Development goals, while in 2017 she was
one of 60 change-makers from around the
world selected to participate in the 10th
UNESCO Youth Forum. In 2017, Temi was
also listed as one of Forbes 30 Under-30
Social Entrepreneurs. At just 21, she was
the youngest on the list.

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