Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai is an activist for female education. She was a student in Swat Valley, in Pakistan. She would speak out publicly for educating girls in the area. She attended a school that her father co-founded. She and her father had been receiving threats, and although she did not take them too seriously, Malala started riding the bus home from school as a precaution. On her way home one afternoon, two Taliban locals stopped her bus. One boarded and shot her in the face. Two other shots were fires, which hit her friends. All three girls survived. Malala was forced to flee, and is in exile in England. She continues to work as an activist, and in October 2014 became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the age of 17.