![]() ![]() ![]() She not only survived the attack, but also became the center of an international movement to support her that led Taliban officials to announce a possible second assassination attempt. However, her outspoken spirit earned her enemies in the Taliban and in October 2012, Yousafzai was shot on a school bus. Growing up in Pakistan under Taliban occupation, Yousafzai's family ran a chain of schools, which inspired her impassioned and public defense of women's education, that included the then-11-year-old writing a blog post under a pen name for the BBC and starring in a New York Times documentary about life in the middle of military occupation. Yousafzai was an activist long before she became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history in 2014, but she's since become a household name. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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