Opportunities Story Studio: Emerging Leaders Initiative
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Session Description
Realizing opportunities requires both imagination and courage. This lunch session features the next generation of social entrepreneurs, selected worldwide as part of the 2019 Emerging Leaders Initiative. Listen to their powerful and authentic voices as they share their unique perspectives on creating a better world.
Time & Location
Time:
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Wednesday, April 10, 2019
BST
Location:
Classroom 2 (TBEC)
Speakers
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Speaker
Founder & CEO, Ishtar Handmade Soap
i was born and raised in Iraq all of my life, after a long journey to continue my studies during war and worst situation in Iraq i was successful to graduate from business administration at the age of 22 , i started after that working and volunteering in humanitarian organization (Alrawdh) where i focused to help women in need, i found my passion in life which is empowering and helping women in Iraq specially widowed and refugee and displaced women and ending child marriage and help girls go to schools, in 2014 i started my own business (Ishtar) which is a small business to support women by training them and hiring them inside the company , we faced many difficulties as it was the first women business that was self funded , but we were very successful to hire 12 women full time and over 25 women part time all around Iraq , we hired widowed women , women who live in poverty, and young women who want to finish their study , we are working now to increase the number of our shops and hire more women and start the next project which is about supporting the girls in poor families to go to schools and not be married at a young age .
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Speaker
Co-Founder and CEO, Urban Refugees
Sonia Ben Ali is the Director and Founder of the non-profit URBAN REFUGEES, (www.urban-refugees.org) and a recent Ashoka Fellow. She holds a Master’s degree in Humanitarian Affairs from the French Institute of Political Sciences of Bordeaux, and started working with refugees and IDPs in 2007. DSonia started working with refugees and IDPs in 2007 in Bogota (Colombia) with a local NGO. She then worked on refugee protection programs in Casamance (Senegal), in a refugee camp of the Palestinian Territories and in Beirut (Lebanon) with both NGOs and UN agencies. Sonia holds a Master’s degree in Humanitarian Affairs from the French Institute of Political Sciences of Bordeaux. She is a Ted X speaker, a finalist of the Echoing Green Fellowship 2016, was awarded the prize of social innovator by Deloitte Australia and social entrepreneur of the year 2014 by ShoeString.
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Speaker
Co-Founder and CEO, CareNx Innovations
Shantanu is creating an ecosystem for quality pregnancy care in low resource settings of India. His initiative CareNX with the team of 20 people is ensuring sustainable approach and efficient healthcare delivery model. 'CareMother' the flagship product of CareNX is a platform for doorstep care and management of high-risk pregnancies. CareMother is recognised by Her Majesty ‘The Queen of England’, UN-Women, Botnar Foundation and Grand Challenges Canada etc. Shantanu is awarded by “The President of India’s Innovation Scholar Award in 2015”, Google SMB Hero Award in 2017 and Top 10 Innovator by MIT, DST and Lockheed Martin in 2018.
He also plays key role in R&D for Women’s Reproductive Health at NanoBios Lab, IIT Bombay. As a PhD scholar from IIT Bombay he has developed cervical cancer screening device for self-screening. Recently, OECD published his article in “Development Cooperation Report 2018” titled -Bringing affordable and accessible maternal healthcare to the poorest districts of India.
He is keen on sustainable partnerships for enabling quality pregnancy care in India.
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Speaker
Co-Founder & Director of Football, Monrovia Football Academy
I am Sekou Dgeorges Manubah, borne unto the union of Mr. and Mrs. Musu Sekou Manubah at the St. Joseph catholic Hospital, old road, Congo Town, Monrovia, Liberia.
I am a former professional soccer player (Liberia National Lonestar). I began my soccer career in Liberia at a very young age where I played in the top flight of Liberia's soccer league with invincible eleven, the former club of the current President of the republic of Liberia and former Ballon D'or winner,H.E. Pres George M. Weah
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Moderator
Sarah Borgman is an Advisor to the Skoll Foundation. She was recently Vice President, Convenings & Community, where she had executive oversight for the Skoll Community of Awardees and Skoll’s high-profile platforms that accelerate entrepreneurial approaches to the world’s most pressing problems. As part of her responsibilities, she oversaw the Skoll World Forum, the premiere 1,200-person, week-long convening at the University of Oxford, in Oxford, U.K.
Sarah has more than 25 years of executive and general management experience, with a focus on marketing, communications and convening experience in the public, private and government sectors. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, she served as the VP of Communications at the X PRIZE, the VP of Communications at the Prostate Cancer Foundation and a VP at Porter Novelli where she directed numerous entertainment, Fortune 100 and advocacy accounts. Sarah also worked for the Clinton Administration as the director of marketing for the Peace Corps and also served as a communications officer at the National School-to-Work Office at the U.S. Department of Education.
Early in her career, Sarah gained significant broadcast experience as a weekly panelist on a national public affairs television show and has served as a spokesperson for several federal departments and non-profit organizations. She has participated in various speaking/ moderating/ steering committee roles in prominent organizations and gatherings such as the Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen Global Leadership Network Action Forum, Opportunity Collaboration, Independent Sector, BSR, Wellbeing Project, among others. She is trained in the IFTF’s Foresight Programming Method and in the Aspen Institute’s intensive Moderator Program.
Sarah started her career as part of the communications team for Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA) and earned a BA in political science and international relations from Boston College. She is currently enrolled in graduate school at Denver Seminary. In her off-time, she and her husband try to stay ahead of her 11-year-old daughter and twin, seven-year-old boys.
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Speaker
Founder & Team Leader, Collage
Ritah Namwiza is a youth advocate with a special interest in how young people can harness technology to create and sustain livelihoods, improving their lives, and those they care about. She is a co-founder of Collage and Development Connection, both e-based platforms that bring development opportunities closer to young people. Ritah has supported various initiatives that equip youth with the skills they need to meaningfully contribute to development processes, including the implementation of Agenda 2030 and has worked with the Restless Development BIG IDEA programme, the UNAIDS Special Youth Programme and the Global Campaign to End Child Labour.
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Speaker
Co-Founder, FarmDrive
'm a Computer Scientist with successful experience in using technology to innovate and distribute high-impact, scalable solutions.
My most recent work is at the intersection of finance, technology and agriculture. I co-founded FarmDrive - a data analytics company using the power of alternative credit scoring to increase sustainable lending from banks to smallholder farmers (SHFs) and small businesses (SMEs) in the agriculture sector.
My career aspiration is to build meaningful technology platforms that improve lives.
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CEO, Enda Athletic Limited
Navalayo Osembo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Enda Athletic, Inc. Osembo is a graduate of the London School of Economics and has worked internationally, including in the US, UK, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya where she utilizes her diverse skills as an accountant, a lawyer, risk manager, and in international development.
She is from a town near Eldoret, Kenya, that has produced generations of the world’s greatest distance runners. Prior to creating Enda Athletic Inc., Osembo started a sports academy in Bungoma, Western Kenya, to provide sports proteges from disadvantaged backgrounds access to much-needed professional training without compromising their education.
In order to maximize social impact in Kenya through sports, Osembo teamed up with her Co-Founder to create Enda Athletic Inc., a made-in-Kenya running shoe brand that creates jobs, invests in local communities, and spurs economic development through exports.
