As Yahoo notes, other speakers at the event included Hugh Jackman, Leonardo Di Caprio, Bono and Pearl Jam, but Malala, of course, stole the show with a passionate speech on the importance of education.
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Fresh from the Friday debut of that dress, first lady Michelle Obama – showing up in a look that was decidedly more demure than her state dinner look but still sleek in all black – made an equally “yassssss”-worthy appearance at the Global Citizen Festival in New York on Saturday night”.
“I see my daughter in these girls”. “We need women for peace, we need women for development”, she said, noting that the German government has expanded childcare and passed a law requiring major companies to have boards that are at least 30% female.
As part of the campaign, the First Lady then called on supporters to tweet pictures of themselves, alongside their answers to the question, “What did I learn in school?”
“It is a book and a pen that can change the life of a child it’s not a gun”, Yousafzai added. “These girls are our girls and I simply can not walk away from them”.
“We are helping adolescent girls worldwide go to school”, Obama also said. Usher, Jason Sudeikis, Laverne Cox, Katie Holmes, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Bill and Melinda Gates also attended the event, along with multiple world leaders, including United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
“I want y’all to feel the connection right now…”
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There were performances from Beyoncé, Arianna Grande, Alicia Keys, Ed Sheeran, Chris Martin, Common and more. “I want y’all to get lost and dance like children”, she told the crowd.
