Lateefa Musah

Lateefa Musah is a Communications Consultant at the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND). Her professional career includes experience as a Peace Builder, Data Anaylst, Program Management, Community Development Practitioner, Writer, Storyteller, and Engineer. She has over 5 years of professional experience working in the development sector to promote peacebuilding and economic development in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. As part of her work promoting peace, she has supported developing and implementing more than 50 peacebuilding interventions. She has also contributed to projecting the impact stories of various regional peace actors and delivering capacity-building training to more than 200 peace actors.

In addition to her work, Lateefa founded the Health, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Mentorship (HELM) Foundation. An organization aimed at educating and training secondary school teenagers on relevant soft skills and executing projects to solve immediate problems in their community. She is a participant in the US Department of State IVLP, World Economic Forum Global Shaper, Young African Leader Initiative (YALI) Cohort Alumni, and the African International Film Festival (AFRIFF). She has also received the US Department Impact Award, one of the top 10 winners of USAID’s Youthlead Turning Point Writing Competition, and a winner of the Advocacy and Media Platform Award in the Niger Delta as part of her work with NDLink.

Lateefa obtained her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Coventry University and a master’s degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Surrey, both in the United Kingdom.