Lois Auta


Lois Auta is the founder and chief executive officer at the Cedar Seed Foundation, an organization that promotes the participation of women with disabilities into human rights based development in Nigeria. She focuses on inclusive legislation for people with disabilities.
In 2019, Auta ran for the Federal Capital Territory's AMAC /Bwari National Assembly seat, in 2022 she vied for the Kaduna State House of Assembly seat to represent Kaura constituency under the platform of All Progressives Congress but lost at the primary to Nehemiah Sunday. She faced discrimination as a female physically challenged politician."

Early life

Auta was born in Jos Plateau, Plateau State, Nigeria, on 29 April 1980 into the Auta Akok family of Kukum Gida Kagoro,

Education

As a child, Auta contracted polio and began using a wheelchair. She holds a diploma and a bachelor's degree in public administration from the University of Abuja, Nigeria. She studied global business administration at Nexford University, based in Washington, DC.
In 2014, she participated in the Young African Leaders Initiative and was selected as a Mandela Washington fellow

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