Malala Yousafzai is a education, human rights, and peace advocate from Swat Valley, Pakistan. Malala became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize at 17 for her activism for education for all children. At age 11, Malala began writing a daily diary published by BBC for people to read about life for a school girl living under the Taliban regime. After writing the diary, Malala felt her purpose in life was to spread awareness of the importance of education for all children and global peace.To spread awareness she spoke on numerous television shows, and was the star of a documentary for The New York Times to show how the Taliban was denying girls the right to attend schools. Many girls in Pakistan such as Malala and her schoolmates continued
