Santa Clara University

Organization: Anarouz Social Enterprise (Morocco)
Role: Founder and Managing Director
Vision: Ignite the power of women artisans as a community of entrepreneurs embracing technology, eradicating illiteracy and at the forefront of decision making towards social change in Morocco.
Inspiring Challenge: 1500 women artisans entrepreneurs will increase their income by 20%. (by December 2013)
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8)
Accomplishments:
- Creating the first NGO tackling social entrepreneurship in Morocco.
- Being chosen as the Fortune 500 Global women leader.

Organization: Kasimu Education Fund (Malawi)
Role: Co-Founder
Vision: Break the cycles of poverty, disease and hunger by improving educational opportunities, making a direct impact on the prosperity of the impoverished Manyesa area
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Reduce Child Mortality (4)

Organization: Mother Mary's Children Center (Malawi)
Role: Director
Vision: Securing health and education for orphaned children
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Reduce Child Mortality (4)

Organization: Room to Read (South Africa)
Role: Regional Program Director
Vision: A world in which all children read
Inspiring Challenge: By December 31, 2010, train 400 teachers in two African countries to teach children to read.
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)

Organization: FUNDZA (Swaziland)
Role: Director
Vision: Empowering women with leadership skills and to encourage participation and desire to be in decision making positions in my society.
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2)
Accomplishments:
- I am proud of having produced excellent leaders while I was a librarian at the University of SD. I impacted many souls. I now marvel as I see some are CEO's of big Companies.
- FUNDZA is the only NGO that promotes lifelong reading in SD. On Feb 14 2012 the Ministry of Education Awarded FUNDZA a certificate in recognition of its valuable support to Education.

Organization: Women Initiative for Sustainable Environment (Nigeria)
Role: Founder and Program Coordinator
Vision: Emancipating women for the development of society
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: Self Help Africa (Uganda)
Role: Gender and Credit Coordinator
Vision: Eradication of Domestic Violence
Inspiring Challenge: Prevention of domestic violence
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishments:
- Starting a community based initiative on the prevention of all forms of violence against women.
- Completing a Masters in Development Studies and writing a dissertation entitled "Gendered effects of Pastoralist-Cultivator Conflicts on family livelihoods".

Organization: UN World Food Programme (Uganda)
Role: Programme Assistant
Vision: To transform subsistence women farmers in Uganda to commercial agricultural production.
Inspiring Challenge: By December 30, 2010, have a 100 women farmers association formed and 100,000 metric tonnes of food sold by the association to sustainable markets.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)

Organization: Technoserve (Kenya)
Role: Senior Business Manager, Entrepreneurship
Vision: To work with girls and young women in Kenya to discover and develop their ability to make a living.
Inspiring Challenge: Start 50 enterprise/business clubs for 2,000 girls in and out of high school in Nairobi slums by December 2010.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: PEN International (Kenya)
Role: President of PEN Kenya, Writer, Poet and Journalist
Vision: A world where freedom includes free expression
Inspiring Challenge: Preparing a website on all African authors and local African languages and writing 'Invincibile Nubian' as well as other works of fiction and non-fiction
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)
Accomplishment: Published several books including "Kenya, Will you Marry Me?" and "Leading the Night"

Organization: Save for Health (Uganda)
Role: Coordinator
Vision: A community where women have financial access to quality health care
Inspiring Challenge: 2000 women managing their enterprises
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Improve Maternal Health (5)

Organization: Forum for African Women Educationalists (Rwanda)
Role: President of the Girls' Education Alliance
Vision: Advocating children's right to education
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Advocates International (Cameroon)
Role: Judge and Head of Advocates Cameroon
Vision: Justice with compassion for everyone
Inspiring Challenge: Establishing birth certificates for destitute children
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1)
Accomplishments:
- Established birth certificates for several destitute children.
- Used the birth certificates to register most of these children for their end of course examination.

Organization: Uganda Catholic Secretariat (Uganda)
Role: HIV/AIDS Program Officer
Vision: An empowered community able to cope with HIV/AIDS
Inspiring Challenge: Support to orphans, vulnerable children and widows
Millennium Development Goal: Reduce Child Mortality (4); Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases (6)
Accomplishments:
- We are very proud that by collaborating with another WLW alumni, a website was constructed for the Good Samaritan Women's Project (an organization founded by Rosemary Nakijoba)
- We are so thrilled to the WLW program for being a social network that benefits our local community

Organization: Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Role: Founder and President, Young Women African Leaders Movement
Vision: Establish an Arts Institute for Africa artists
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Blue Planet Network (Kenya)
Role: Maasai Warrior and Elder, Activist for Safe Drinking Water
Vision: Educating girls by liberating them from the task of hauling water
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: Unknown (South Africa)
Vision: Create a leadership network for graduate women of color that is aimed at increasing awareness of corporate governance and social responsibility at the workplace
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: TechnoServe Inc. (Mozambique)
Role: Project Manager
Vision: My vision is to provide well being to the community in the rural area of Mozambique
Inspiring Challenge: Create a network of maize mill centers owned and operated by women, selling goods and services to improve the family, health, food security and income. Our goal is to have 120 centers by 2014 for all the region. Today, we have three and by july 2012 we will have 50.
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger (1)
Accomplishment: When I was promoted to the current position. My original background when I first joined TechnoServe was unrelated to business, for me it was recognition of my achievements within the organization and that my coworkers trust that I can deliver a good result and am better than other external candidates competing for the same position.

Organization: Association of Consecrated Women of Eastern and Central Africa (Kenya)
Role: Chairperson
Vision: Empower women to seek wholeness of life through community health center
Millennium Development Goal: Improve Maternal Health (5); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)

Organization: Rural Women's Movement (South Africa)
Role: Founder and Director
Vision: Research grassroots women
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases (6)

Organization: Akina Mama wa Afrika (Uganda)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: A world in which there is social, economic and political autonomy of African women
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: United Nations Development Programme (Ethiopia)
Role: Development Consultant, Researcher, Former Gender Officer (UNDP)
Vision: Create hostels and provide counseling for girls
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: Living Goods (Uganda)
Role: Business Manager
Vision: To create a positive impact in terms of improved health and incomes to another community in Uganda.
Millennium Development Goal: Combat Malaria and other Diseases (6)
Accomplishments:
- Started as a telesales executive, a newly created position. I excelled in this position and grew revenue for DHL by over 100% in the territory I was assigned. This eventually earned me a promotion to the position of sales and marketing executive.
- I have managed to setup LIVINGGOODS Uganda operations successfully, so far we have 5 branches and a team of 13 whom I recruited, trained, and manage successfully.

Organization: Human Rights Advocacy Center (Ghana)
Role: Project Officer and Coordinator
Vision: Educating children to advocate for their rights
Millennium Development Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3)

Organization: World Wildlife Fund (Kenya)
Role: Conservation Education Program Manager
Vision: Generating sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservation for riparian communities
Millennium Development Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)