Varaidzo Vee Kativhu was a speaker at the recently held event by Break The Love at the Michelle Obama Tennis Centre in Chicago, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Title IX. The event brought together education activists and athletes to discuss the issues that affect women in sports and learning.
Vee Kativhu was also the leader of a discussion panel that featured several women athletes like former Wimbledon champion Vania King and Pro MMA fighter Killer Bee. The event was hosted as a collaboration of Break The Love, the US Tennis Association, Wilson and Celcius.
I spoke at the grand opening of Michelle Obama’s new sports club! & I still can’t believe I was FLOWNN OUTTT to Chicago to do this! To interview and host the panel for these incredible female athletes at the Michelle Obama Tennis Center in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Title IX
So many girls have just been funded for fully funded tennis programmes for summer thanks to the amazing brands who attended and supported this event.
(Title IX is a groundbreaking gender equality law that was put in place 50 years ago to fight against exclusion from the sport based on sex & gender; part of the Education Amendments)
I’m just HONOURED to even have my name mentioned in rooms like these!!- and to be able to find ways of feeding girls education and empowerment in everything I do!
Vee Kativhu is a YouTube visionary, education activist and founder of the initiative, Empowered by Vee. She uses her platform to share tips and advice to help underprivileged and underrepresented people from across the world recognize their own talent and potential. An Oxford and Harvard graduate, Vee has been named a Rare Rising Star, Future Leader, Diversity Champion and LinkedIn Changemaker.
She has also been a BBC Teach presenter, TEDx speaker and a University, Empowerment and Academia Content Creator for YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn, achieving many other accolades in the process. With a following of over 300,000 across her channels and her Empowered by Vee community, Vee is an inspiration to anyone who has faced adversity and made it through.
(Sources: Instagram, Penguin)