Santa Clara University

Organization: TechnoServe (Kenya)
Role: Senior Business Manager
Vision: Economically empower young women living in the slums of Nairobi with opportunities to generate sustainable incomes, so that they lead dignified lives out of poverty.
Inspiring Challenge: Over 10,000 young women will have opportunities to generate sustainable income for themselves, their families and communities. (by December 2013)
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Trained 3700 girls and young women in entrepreneurship and business skills through the Young Women in Enterprise program.
- Rallying corporations to support and invest in girls. For example, Coca Cola is supporting 100 girls through their 5 by 20 women Empowerment program. This is a pilot expected to be scaled up.

Organization: TechnoServe (Mozambique)
Role: Product Development Manager
Vision: To see all Mozambicans holistically healthy and self-sufficient within their local beliefs and culture.
Inspiring Challenge: 150 Rural Fun (Food) Centres that improves people's minds, bodies and spirits -- Minds with intuitive education! Bodies with good nutrition! Spirits with self-esteem and enthusiasm! (by December 2013)
Millennium Development Goals: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases (6)
Accomplishments:
- Developed a project in and about a problematic country for my Masters thesis.
- Managing a project that is aimed to improve peoples' lives without modifying their local beliefs. A moment of pride was to know that the project will be implemented.

Organization: Uganda Women's Network (Uganda)
Role: Project Co-Director and Former Member of Ugandan Parliament
Vision: Help women in leadership speak out about women's rights and abuses
Inspiring Challenge: Provide homes to divorced women and their children; Impact practices on land ownership
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Republic of Senegal (Senegal)
Role: Former Minister of Culture and Gender
Vision: Empower women and reduce poverty
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: African Medical and Research Foundation (Tanzania)
Role: Tanzania Country Director
Vision: Opening access to health care by including rural communities in decision making
Millennium Development Goal: Improve Maternal Health (5)

Organization: Life Bloom Services International (Kenya)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Dignity among women who have experienced abuse
Inspiring Challenge: Building a "One Stop Center" for women and girls.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Training a team of 15 women leaders on some basics of authentic leadership.
- Kicking off the construction of the "One Stop Center," with the women getting down to do the physical work (this has been mainly a male occupation in our community).

Organization: Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (Ghana)
Role: Gender Studies Lecturer and Journalist
Vision: Give women public voice and visibility
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: iCON Women and Young People's Leadership Academy (Uganda)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Unleashing women’s leadership through self-help in East Africa
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Democrats Abroad (South Africa)
Role: Owner of B&B and Vice Chair of Democrats Abroad
Vision: Promoting a balance of conservation, sustainability and development of the natural environment and the tourism industry
Millennium Development Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: The Hunger Project (Ethiopia)
Role: Chairperson, Ethiopia Advisory Council
Vision: Creating women change agents to influence policy, programs and budgets
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: SNV Netherlands Development Organization (Tanzania)
Role: Project Director, Renewable Energy and Biogas
Vision: Educate women about their rights; See more Tanzanians have better lives by adopting newer renewable energy technologies for their home
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: United Nations World Food Programme (Kenya)
Role: Programme Officer
Vision: Linking sponsors with needy children to advance educational opportunities
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

Organization: Resala Charity Organization (Egypt)
Role: Financial Supporter& Volunteer Project Coordinator.
Vision: Supporting Women's Independence in poor Communities (Luxor) by qualifying them to be artisans and establishing new sales Channels.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- I challenged the biased treatment I faced in my last year of studies by doubling my efforts to achieve high standing. I was also promoted as Idealistic Student on departure.
- I got my own independence by living alone in Luxor. I also received high recognition from my colleagues and students as one of the best teaching skilled professors.

Organization: Asante Africa Foundation (Kenya)
Role: Co-Founder, School Principal, Maasai Tribe Member
Vision: Provide shelter, training and education to widows and girls to transform their future.
Inspiring Challenge: By December 31, 2010, acquire 50 acres of land to provide shelter for 50 widows and complete four classrooms and a resource center to provide education and vocation training for girls.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Forum for African Women Educationalists (Zambia)
Role: Senior Programme Coordinating Officer
Vision: A world where girls and women lead technological innovations
Inspiring Challenge: By December 20102, establish a cutting edge technology teachers' resource center that will empower 200 teachers to effectively teach math, science and technology subjects to 2,500 girls in Serenje district, Zambia.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Mother and Child Health Centre Magbil, Lunsar (Sierra Leone)
Role: Director and Founder and Member
Vision: To help reduce the infant and maternal morbidity and Mortality rate in Sierra Leone
Inspiring Challenge: Build another Health center that will serve pregnant women and their newborn from hundred surrounding villages. (by November 20, 2013)
Millennium Development Goal: Reduce Child Mortality (4); Improve Maternal Health (5); Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases (6)
Accomplishments:
- UK Midwife of the Year award in 2008.
- Changing the lives of women in the community of Magbil, Sierra Leone.

Organization: Pact Kenya (Kenya)
Role: Former Advisor of the WORTH Global Support Unit
Vision: Economically empower women
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: United Nations World Food Programme (Kenya)
Role: Programme Officer
Vision: Enrolling women in conflict prevention and peace building
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Emkay (East Africa) Limited (Kenya)
Role: Director and founder of Emkay (East Africa) Limited.
Vision: To be an efficient , good mentor and coach for young women leaders in East Africa.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishment: My proudest moment is when we launched a girl-child network to advocate for the rights of the girl-child.

Organization: The GoDown Arts Centre (Kenya)
Role: Regional Program Director
Vision: To inspire youth to use their talents in the arts in being effective agents of change in Kenya.
Inspiring Challenge:
- Through an artistically rich television program, use cultural operators as primary sources of influences for the youth in issues of National importance e.g., governance, crime.
- Create photo exhibitions of the post-election violence (Kenya 2007/8) as a reminder to people of their responsibility as citizens in the upcoming elections.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)
Accomplishments:
- We managed to run a successful campaign around the country "Never Forget, Never Again" on the post election violence in 2009/2010.
- The GoDown received support for a television programme to sensitize youth through artists and cultural operators, giving us a platform to influence the youth in Kenya.

Organization: Labour Party of Kenya (Kenya)
Role: Women Congress Leader, Politician, Aspiring Member of Parliament (2013)
Vision: The Leading Ladies Project advocates the empowerment of young women to engage actively in political leadership and run for public office.
Inspiring Challenge: My inspiring challenge is to run for the office of Member of Parliament In Makadara constituency in Nairobi, Kenya and to mobilize 300 young women under 40 to run for office.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Founded Project Africa, a non profit organization to empower women and girls in rural Africa
- Lady Mekanika project provides young women with skills in automobile mechanics
- Nanny School project trains women in home economics and management
- Health by Motorbike initiative for rural women in Kenya
- Delivered TEDxBayArea Talk on Social Entrepreneurship: The Power House for Women

Organization: Wege Women Group Support Organization (Kenya)
Role: Founder and Director
Vision: Focusing beyond biological parenthood's principles
Millennium Development Goal: Reduce Child Mortality (4)

Organization: Uganda Women's Network (Uganda)
Role: Project Co-Director
Vision: Establish economic global network of women
Inspiring Challenge: Building homes for rural women who are victims of property-related domestic violence
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)

Organization: Women's Earth Alliance (Ghana)
Role: Sub-Saharan African Program Director
Vision: Empower and equip all women and girls to be whole women, whole leaders to fulfill their visions for a whole world.
Inspiring Challenge: Create a dynamic partnership between the Women's Earth Alliance and the Global Women's Water Initiative, working on women's rights to water, land, farming and basic human dignity.
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7); Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)