Allan Mudenda Hagwelele has more than 13 years of experience in information and community literacy activism and in secondary school teaching. He currently works as a provincial librarian at the Provincial Education Office in Southern Province, Zambia, where he manages a public library and oversees community, district, and school libraries. Allan is committed to empowering citizens to be critical thinkers, skilled researchers, and users of information to make decisions that affect them. He is also the founder and director of One4One Book Hub, an organization that supports literacy development by giving free reading materials to children in rural areas, and the current membership secretary for the Library and Information Association of Zambia. He is an Alumnus of the Initiative for Young African Library Innovators, and has worked as project coordinator for a digital reading project supported by Worldreader. Allan holds a bachelor's degree in Library and Information Science and History from the University of Zambia. On completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, Allan hopes to continue championing access to information and to grow One4One Book Hub.