Clemantine Wamariya

First took the Leadercast stage in 2018 · 1 Leadercast event

Clemantine Wamariya is a storyteller and human rights advocate who fled the Rwandan genocide as a child and spent six years moving through seven African countries before being granted refugee status in the United States at twelve. A Yale graduate, she co-wrote the memoir The Girl Who Smiled Beads with Elizabeth Weil.