Bamshak Dennis Bigwan

Bamshak Dennis Bigwan

Africa, Nigeria, Civic Engagement, 2014

Bamshak Bigwan currently serves as the Director of Administration for the Latterhouse Christian Centre. He is responsible for working with youth in the northeastern states of Nigeria and empowering them through workshops and seminars that focus on skills acquisition. Bamshak is the the founder and President of the Global Leaders Consult, a nonprofit organization that seeks to restore the declining economy of northeastern Nigeria by training widows and orphans in basic hands on skills to enable them to start small scale businesses and factories. Bamshak holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, a master’s degree in Public Administration, and is a certified CISCO Networking Associate. After completing the Washington Fellowship, Bamshak intends to increase the scope of his economic empowerment seminars and start off literary programs for youth who are out of school due to the insurgence in northern Nigeria. He also plans to revamp his skills acquisitions program to include northcentral Nigeria and create a mentoring program to share knowledge gained from the fellowship with other promising and talented emerging youths.