Moderator Lakshmi Moore, program director for Girls First Fund, Kadiatu Konate, executive director of The Young Girl Leaders Club of Guinea, Ulanda Mtamba, Country Director of Advancing Girls' Education in Africa (AGE Africa), and Rebeca Gyumi, founder and executive director of The Msichana Initiative, spoke on a panel at the End Child Marriage event led by African icon Graca Machel, founder of The Graca Machel Trust and The Foundation for Community Development, Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the U.S and founder of the Girls Opportunity Alliance, Melinda French Gates, global philanthropist and co-chair of the Gates Foundation, and Amal Clooney, leading human rights lawyer and founder of Clooney Foundation for Justice.
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