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It's not just business people who are leaders.
Leadership is taking charge.
It is allowing yourself to be a vessel for something important.
It is serving the community, the cause, the event that you're organising.
This is Bonnie Adeli.
Bonnie is a protest organiser for the campaign organisation Black lives Matter in the UK.
From climate protests to equality marches, protests require strong leaders to gather people together and campaign for change.
Bonnie is one of a number of young people who put their efforts and leadership skills into social causes as well as their jobs.
So what has Bonnie learnt from being a leader as a young person?
What would she do differently if she was starting out again?
I think I would be kinder to myself.
I'm very self critical.
Some things will go wrong and that's okay.
It doesn't take away from the core of what you're doing.
What advice does Bonnie have for future leaders?
I think our society makes us so casual.
Sometimes our generation makes us really casual, like it's cool not to care.
And that's simply not true.
Keep caring about things.
Bonnie uses the word casual, which we usually use to talk about informality, such as casual clothes.