Leyla Hussein OBE is a psychotherapist, campaigner, and global leader on gender rights.
She is an international lecturer on female genital mutilation (FGM) and recognised as one of the key experts on the issue globally. She is the founder of The Dahlia Project, the UK’s first specialist therapeutic service for FGM survivors.
Leyla regularly appears as an expert commentator on women’s rights and health, with articles published in The Guardian, Cosmopolitan and The Huffington Post.
In 2019, Leyla was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for her work in tackling female genital mutilation and advocating gender equality.
Her current project, The Girl Generation, focuses on the importance of the emotional wellbeing of activists in the field working with survivors of FGM.
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