Sosina (Soisy) Challa founded Ethiopian Girl Skaters, one of Ethiopia’s first female-only skateboarding organizations, with trepidation and worry. She disclosed to British Vogue, “I had no idea how it would go, how people would see it, if people would consider it acceptable,” and was concerned, among other things, that girls wouldn’t feel comfortable trying new things, that their parents wouldn’t let them come, and that it would seem too dangerous.
