# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thinzar-shunlei-yi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:43:11.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thinzar-shunlei-yi"
name: "Thinzar Shunlei Yi"
slug: "thinzar-shunlei-yi"
description: "Thinzar Shunlei Yi is a Burmese pro-democracy activist and television host. Following the 2021 Burmese coup d'état, she helped organize mass protests against the Tatmadaw. Born in Sagaing to a military family, she originally trained to become a high school teacher, graduating from the Yangon University of Education in 2013. Between 2012 and 2016, Thinzar Shunlei Yi was politically active in executive positions of several youth organizations, and later became a television host on Under 30 Dialogue, a youth-oriented television programme. In 2018, she was charged for unlawful protest against the Rohingya genocide, and was convicted in 2020. After organizing protests against the Tatmadaw in the wake of the 2021 coup d'état, she fled to the jungle and briefly joined an armed rebel group. She lives in exile in Thailand as of 2022, and runs the #Sisters2Sisters anti-wartime sexual violence campaign. She has received the Magnitsky Human Rights Award, and further honors from Women of the Future, the Obama Foundation, and the US Department of State."
tagline: "Burmese human rights activist (born 1991)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thinzar_Shunlei_Yi_circa_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1991-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.537581333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/thinzarshunleiyi/"
    handle:    "thinzarshunleiyi"
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinzar_Shunlei_Yi"
    title: "Thinzar Shunlei Yi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinzar_Shunlei_Yi"
    title: "Thinzar Shunlei Yi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinzar_Shunlei_Yi"
    title: "Thinzar Shunlei Yi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinzar_Shunlei_Yi"
    title: "Thinzar Shunlei Yi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinzar_Shunlei_Yi"
    title: "Thinzar Shunlei Yi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinzar_Shunlei_Yi"
    title: "Thinzar Shunlei Yi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%9E%E1%80%89%E1%80%B9%E1%80%87%E1%80%AC%E1%80%9B%E1%80%BD%E1%80%BE%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9C%E1%80%B2%E1%80%B7%E1%80%9B%E1%80%8A%E1%80%BA"
    title: "သဉ္ဇာရွှန်းလဲ့ရည်"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114081462"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump