Ewajesu Asala, 24 year old young Nigerian who has a knack for young people. Her drive to understand young people and to develope her natural flair for young people led her to the doorsteps of Digital Peers International, organizers of DIGITEST, a yearly ICT camp for young people across the country. Since 2005, she has been actively involved in shaping the overall organizational process of DIGITEST. In 2006, She worked as an intern at the DPI office in Abuja, where she was responsible for working on the operational process of DIGITEST, which included registering more than 300 young people and fundraising for the camp.

Ewajesu has also been involved in The Intellectual Group, a youth-led-not-for-profit organization whose main aim is to empower young people for positive development. Firstly, as Director of Activities during which initiatives such as the yearly Ogbomosho World AIDS Day Campaign, Information and Communication (IT) seminars as well as youth input into the National AIDS 2004 Summit held in Abuja were accomplished and more recently as the Director of Media and Public Relations. She was responsible for developing content and coordinating the editorial focus of Globalilo, TIG’s flagship youth newsletter. She has also spearheaded TIG’s media projects which included appearances on various TV such as LTV 8, AIT, and NTA amongst others to discuss various topical issues affecting young people in Nigeria. She actively participated in the input of young people in Oyo state towards the Nigerian Youth declaration to the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Phase II. She currently involved with the sensitization of young people about voters education and their constitutional rights towards mandate protection and democratic process in Nigeria towards the upcoming 2007 elections through the establishment of an Electoral Mandate Protection Vanguard.

Ewajesu is an alumnus of the Democratic Leadership Training workshop (DLTW) of the Africa Leadership Forum, The Deliberative leadership Forum of Upline resources Foundation and the Young Women Leadership Training Project of the Female Leadership Forum. Ewajesu is an active member of Nigerian Youth Network on MDGs (NYNM), a member of Global Youth coalition on HIV/AIDS and the Nigerian ICT4D Network Coordinating Team.

She is currently working as the Youth and Program Officer of the African Women and Youth Organisation Berlin Germany in which she working towards the development of initiative that would empower young Africans across the continent and in the Diaspora.