Noel is building a generation of boys who grow into men that lead with empathy, ask for help when they need it, and make the communities around them safer for women and girls.
At the heart of everything I do is a belief that leadership means walking beside people, amplifying their voices, and creating systems that outlast us.
I started this work because I watched boys grow into men who hurt the people around them – not because they were born that way, but because no one taught them another way to be. I believe we can change that through the unglamorous work of showing boys what caring looks like and giving men the space to become it. That is what Boys Champions is. That is what I have given the last seven years of my life to.
And I am just getting started.
Noel is the founder of Boys Champions, a nonprofit working at the intersection of gender equality, men’s mental health, and youth leadership for boys and men in Nigeria and the United States.
Noel is a PhD Candidate | Raising Caring Boys @Boys Champions | Speaking to Our Men @DearMen Podcast | Advancing Inclusive Education @Project HOPE | Social Impact CEO Championing Justice for People & Planet @The People’s Project
The systems that produce violent men are the same systems that produce poverty and exclusion. Through The People's Project, Noel works alongside communities to challenge those conditions and build environments where everyone can live with dignity.
Project HOPE exists for the girls and children with disabilities that Nigerian schools were never built for. Since 2012, HOPE has reached more than 70,000 girls and children across 57 primary schools, training more than 3,000 teachers.
Since 2018, Noel has engaged 26,476 boys and men across Nigeria and the United States, shifting what masculinity looks like from the inside out.









































