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Malala Yousafzai - Pakistani Education Activist 

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Malala Yousafzai - Pakistani Education Activist 

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Malala Yousafzai was born in Mingora, Pakistan. She is best known for speaking out against the Taliban’s oppressiveness policies and their ban on the education of girls. Because of her activism, she became a target of the Taliban, who retaliated against her by shooting her on the way home from school. She survived the shooting and went on to become an internationally renowned education activist.

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Malala was born and raised in Mingora which is part of the Swat District in Pakistan.

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Malala loved school. Her father ran the girls' school in her town. Malala was ten years old when the Taliban took control of Swat. The Taliban banned things such as owning a television, playing music, and girls attending school. Women could only leave their home if accompanied by a male relative and wearing a burqa. The Taliban enforced punishments for those who did not follow their orders.

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Malala spoke out publicly on behalf of girls and their right to an education. She and her father gained international attention which forced the Taliban to change the rule of girls going to school. Girls under the age of eleven could attend school. Malala continue attending school even though she was above that age. She continued speaking out which made her a target of the Taliban. In 2012, on her way home from school, a masked gunman boarded her bus and shot her.

Malala woke up 10 days later in a hospital in Birmingham, England, where the doctors and nurses informed her of the attack. After several weeks, her family joined her in Birmingham, where they began their new life.

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After recovering, Malala faced the choice of either living a quiet life or continuing the fight she had begun in Pakistan. She decided to continue speaking and fighting until every girl could go to school. Malala received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 and became the youngest person to be honored with that award.

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Malala stood up against the Taliban and fought for the right of education for girls, gaining international recognition and support in her efforts. Her greatest achievement has been demonstrating that it is possible to stand up and speak out against what is wrong. Malala showed courage, knowing the risks involved with advocating for the education of girls, and took the opportunity to emerge as an education and women's rights activist.

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Malala continues the fight she began as a young girl to ensure that girls all over the world receive twelve years of free, safe, and quality education. She travels to many countries and works to ensure that their stories are heard around the world.

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Teacher leaders can learn many lessons about leadership from Malala. We can follow her example of having strong self-awareness and understanding of our values. We can use that knowledge to demonstrate relational transparency and balanced processing to improve education.

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Malala displays the attributes of authentic leadership: she displayed deep self-awareness from a young age, knowing her strengths and weaknesses well and discussing them throughout her book; she showed relational transparency through her ability to communicate her passion for girls to go to school in an articulate way without being clouded by emotions; she demonstrated balanced processing, giving her in book examples of how she was able to stay calm and consistent even under the threat of danger; she exhibited a strong moral code, placing value on education from a young age and continuing to this day to fight for all girls to have the right to a free, quality education.