Jury
Evelina Cabrera
Evelina Cabrera is an Argentinian soccer player, mental coach and activist who promotes equality and education through sport. In 2013, she founded the Argentine Women's Soccer Association (AFFAR), creating the first blind-women's soccer team in Buenos Aires and its National team. In 2017, she brought inclusion football to women prisons in Argentina. At the same time, The Economist Magazine chose her as one of the future influential young people in South America. In 2018, she spoke at the United Nations Youth Assembly in NYC and commited to the SDGs 2030 and closed the W20 Summit in Argentina. In 2020, the BBC in London chose her as one of the 100 most influential women in the world. In 2021, she became the first woman in Mexico to be an assistant coach in men's soccer. Ernst & Young Global Ltd. (EY) chose her as the Social Entrepreneur of the year in Argentina and named her Ambassador of Equity in Sport in the Organization of American States. She has written 3 books promoting values and education.
Abdoulaye Konaté
Abdoulaye Konaté (Mali) studied arts at the National Institute of Arts in Bamako, then at the Higher Institute of Arts in Havana, in Cuba. He was the Director General of the “Palais de la Culture”, Advisor to the Minister of Culture, Founding Director of the “Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers Multimedia” (CAMM) in Mali. Abdoulaye was moreover a member of various boards of directors and several juries, such as the biennial festival of photography of Bamako. He directed and participated in several exhibitions around the world. Konaté's works are now present in many public collections, many foundations and private collections such as the Bank of West African States in Dakar (Senegal), but also Dak'Art, the Biennale of Art Contemporary African in Senegal and the Museum of Contemporary African Art Al Maaden in Marrakech (Morocco). Abdoulaye has been awarded numerous international recognition awards, including the Dakar Biennial Prize, the Knight of the National Order of Mali or the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (by French Government).
Aly Ndiaye (Webster)
Aly Ndiaye, aka Webster, is a veteran of the Quebec hip-hop scene. Active since 1995, he now gives concerts, creative writing workshops and lectures all over the world. Passionate about history, the Limoilou rapper is particularly interested in slavery and the presence of people of African descent in Quebec and Canada since the times of New France. Webster is the author of a hip-hop writing manual, À l'Ombre des Feuilles (Québec Amérique, 2019), and a children's book, Le Grain de Sable (Septentrion, 2019), about Olivier Le Jeune, the first African slave in Canada. He was also the curator of the exhibition Fugitifs! presented at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec in 2019.
