Rihanna: "Growing up in Barbados, school was a grind. But I was lucky"
![GPE Board Chair Julia Gillard was joined by GPE Global Ambassador Rihanna and Global Citizen CEO and co-founder Hugh Evans during a trip to Malawi. Credit: Evan Rogers GPE Board Chair Julia Gillard was joined by GPE Global Ambassador Rihanna and Global Citizen CEO and co-founder Hugh Evans during a trip to Malawi. Credit: Evan Rogers](https://assets.globalpartnership.org/s3fs-public/styles/375x250/public/36127444262_1eda660609_z.jpg?VersionId=y58sjKyxAUZCb1maubtyN9kQuLzaAE1a&itok=C_Z27o84)
In this op-ed, Rihanna makes the case for investing in education, and encourages individuals to join her in the fight for the quarter of a billion young people still denied the right of education.
![GPE Board Chair Julia Gillard was joined by GPE Global Ambassador Rihanna and Global Citizen CEO and co-founder Hugh Evans during a trip to Malawi. Credit: Evan Rogers GPE Board Chair Julia Gillard was joined by GPE Global Ambassador Rihanna and Global Citizen CEO and co-founder Hugh Evans during a trip to Malawi. Credit: Evan Rogers](https://assets.globalpartnership.org/s3fs-public/styles/375x250/public/36127444262_1eda660609_z.jpg?VersionId=y58sjKyxAUZCb1maubtyN9kQuLzaAE1a&itok=C_Z27o84)