Nyla Rodgers

Biography

Nyla Rodgers is an activist, futurist, and non-profit leader with a passion for merging social impact with technology. She creates and runs organizations that transform communities, foster social entrepreneurship around the world, and advocates for greater generosity and partnership between the tech and non-profit worlds.

Nyla Rogers is CEO and Founder of Mama Hope, an organization that builds the capacity of grassroots leaders worldwide by providing them with the funding, training and talent to build sustainable projects. Since 2006 Mama Hope has funded 134 projects that have improved the health, education, food and water security of over 730,000 people throughout Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India and the U.S.A. She is Co-Producer of Stop The Pity video campaign (20M views), which focuses on changing the image of Africa by addressing common stereotypes. She is also the Co-Founder of the Global Advocates program, a 9-month instructional career and leadership incubator that trains the next generation of social entrepreneurs.

In 2015 she was a finalist for the Global Citizen of the Year Award. In 2017 she was honored for her work as a Female Leader in Eileen Fisher’s Fall campaign “Power: In the Words of Women” and was profiled in Forbes under the headline: The Business of Hope: What It Takes and How One Woman Inspired it.

Recently, her work in philanthropy has led her to become an activist and philosopher in the cryptocurrency space where she is a speaker and advocate for greater generosity and altruism in the crypto community. She recently launched the #satoshiisfemale movement to promote that blockchain/crypto are an inherently female approach to moving value across the world.