Nicolò Govoni, is a writer and human rights activist, President and CEO of Still I Rise. At the age of 20, he began his first volunteer assignment in an orphanage in India, where he stayed for four years, during which he earned a degree in Journalism. In 2018, he moved to the island of Samos, Greece, and founded Still I Rise, a humanitarian organization that opens Emergency Schools and International Schools for refugee and vulnerable children. The organization currently operates in Northwest Syria, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen, Colombia, and South Sudan, with future openings in India and Italy.