ABOUT
Asma Elbadawi is a British Sudanese Athlete and award-winning poet, born in Sudan and raised in England. She is best known for successfully campaigning for the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to allow Muslim women to wear the Hijab globally in Professional Basketball and as the 2015 Words First Leeds winner of a national poetry competition partnered by BBC Radio 1Xtra and the Roundhouse.
Her contribution to sports, culture and arts has impacted many women worldwide and has been celebrated by media outlets and sports brands such as Vogue Arabia, Harper Bazar, CNN Sport, Adidas and many more.