Walid Ahmed Ali heads the Lamu Youth Alliance organisation and has been active in the community as a human rights and environmental activist since 2009. He was part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship in 2014 and has actively advocated for sustainable environmental protection and community work through various interventions. Walid is passionate about the youth in entrepreneur of Lamu and has worked tirelessly to ensure that they are empowered in various areas such as leadership skills, technical skills and their integration into the locally available economic and financial infrastructure. He has also championed environmental sustainability and Walid has also been involved in numerous youth empowerment initiatives, such as community dialogues, theatre performances, graffiti installations and peace football tournaments. His organisation donated food to community members in need during the COVID 19 pandemic and sensitized communities about the disease and encouraging village saving and loan assistance in encomic empowerment.
He has a bachelor's degree in development studies and will talk about his efforts to protect the environment, in particular his role in the fight against the Lamu coal-fired power plant and the restoration of the mangrove forest in his home town of Lamu.