Zainab Adakole is an activist, program officer and community mobilizer, with Women Initiative for Sustainable Empowerment (WISE), an organization responsible for mobilizing and planning interventions for adolescent girls, young women and women who identify as queer.  She has in the course of her work with WISE. Her work in the Communities of Kano and Kaduna brings about ripples of positive change that sparks hope in the midst of adversity and adversely harsh socio-political environment.  She is a young queer woman, who is very committed to the work of eradication of all forms of violence towards queer women and girls in the core of northern Nigeria.