Malala Yousafzai on what she’s learned about changing the world
Malala Yousafzai has spent her life advocating for girls’ education — surviving an assassination attempt at 15, meeting with world leaders and then watching hard-won progress collapse when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in 2021. That moment of despair forced her to completely rethink what it means to create change, and what she discovered replaced her shattered optimism with something more powerful and more honest.
In the first talk released from TED2026: All of Us, hear how to keep fighting for the future you want, even when hope feels lost: go.ted.com/malalayousafzai26