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Nairobi, Kenya

Arifu is a digital learning companion and content marketplace helping businesses engage and upskill any audience over any mobile phone. By serving customers like Mastercard, Google, the UN, and the World Bank, we've made it possible for nearly 2 million people across 10 countries in Africa to learn skills for free, even when they don't have access to.

Zimbabwe

Lived with a family in Chinotimba, Zimbabwe, to understand the challenges that microenterprises and their resource-constrained entrepreneurs face while trying to establish stable livelihoods in a difficult business environment. This led to the testing of various hypotheses for how services delivered over mobile devices could improve access to knowledge.

Boston, MA, USA

Responsible for planning and coordinating the World Wide Web Foundation's fundraising program, which secured $13m in its first three years under the leadership of CEO, Steve Bratt, and the inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.The Web Foundation is a non-profit organization devoted to achieving a world in which all people can use the Web to communicate.

Cambridge, United States

Provided research support to MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) as part of a W3C Task Force that worked to create a more globally inclusive Web by establishing the World Wide Web Foundation.

Conducted due diligence on early-stage companies looking for equity financing under the Queen's University School of Business venture portfolio.

Responsible for researching and assessing emerging business opportunities.

First foray into entrepreneurship. Partnered on a $100,000 home improvement franchise.