Georgie Badiel-Liberty is a Burkinabé model, author, and activist living and working in New York City. Badiel-Liberty was Miss Burkina Faso in 2003 and Miss Africa 2004. Shortly after being crowned Miss Africa, Georgie began her modelling career in Paris, France. Her client list includes Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Lanvin, Zan Toi, and Dianne von Furstenberg. She has been featured in Russian and Italian Vogue, Marie Claire, GQ, Essence, among other publications. Her modelling career eventually brought her to New York where Georgie began using her platform to take on the issue of the lack of potable drinking water in her West African homeland. She runs the Georgie Badiel Foundation which is dedicated to building and restoring wells in Burkina Faso. To date, the Georgie Badiel Foundation has provided access to water for over 270,000 people who previously suffered from water scarcity. In 2016, Georgie co-created the children’s book
The Water Princess
with legendary illustrator Peter H. Reynolds and author Susan Verde. The Water Princess is a picture book that tells the story of her life as a young girl who dreams of bringing clean water to her people. The book was published by Penguin Random House. Georgie then published a new children’s book Princess Giegie Water Is Here in 2019 under her own imprint, Princess GieGie Publishing. For her work bringing clean water to Burkina Faso, Georgie received her nation’s highest civilian honor, Chevalier de Merit Burkinabe, on February 28, 2018 at the Burkina Faso United Nations Mission in New York. She is married to Chid Liberty, a Liberian-American social entrepreneur.