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Washington, DC, US

College Park, MD, US

College Park, MD, US

Lead the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship's venture development team and program portfolio, working to effectively empower both business and social entrepreneurs. Create an inclusive entrepreneurship strategy to guide all Center activities. Advance fundraising and stewardship efforts, general Center strategy and operations, and represent the Dingman.

College Park, MD, US

Work collaboratively within the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, the Smith School, the University, and the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in pursuit of empowering, educating, and equipping student entrepreneurs. Provide strategic vision and leadership for one of the nation’s preeminent university entrepreneurship centers. Oversee the operations of Dingman.

Consulting services in international development and education, thought leadership, strategic advising, speaking, training, facilitation, and curriculum design. Topics: innovation, inclusion, international development, product and program development, entrepreneurship education, youth employment, empowerment, development, leadership, 21st-century skills.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Rockville, MD, US

Educator for the Equity Incubator implemented by University Startups at Universities at Shady Grove.

Washington, DC, US

• Lead for innovation, learning, research, product/program development, and thought leadership within the global education non-profit. Product and Program Design Focused on youth, leadership, entrepreneurship, future of.
• Serve as a technical expert across the organization strengthening the technical rigor of programs in all units. Launch an internal self-guided online library to strengthen staff technical expertise and coach staff.
• Lead the development of a “Creating Impactful Partnerships” guide to strategic partnership development.
• Lead strategic partnership development with the private sector and foundation partners.Human-centered Designer
• Engage diverse stakeholders in product development through human-centered design, lean methodology and agile management, conduct market research for new products and strategic priorities for the organization.Thought.
• Drive external thought leadership through public speaking, articles, op-eds.Program Launch - Global USAID programs

Washington, DC, US

Washington, DC, US

Washington, DC, US

Manage the delivery of a business and entrepreneurship experiential learning programming for 375 visiting Fellows from across sub-Saharan Africa who are part of the flagship U.S. State Department Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders (YALI) at 15 higher education institutions across the U.S. The program is implemented in collaboration.

Founding cultural curator for an art and creativity collective that showcases the ingenuity and creativity within the African diaspora in DC. The collective has organized events focused on fine arts, music, culinary arts, crafts and makers, and storytelling creating a platform for ~50 different creatives of the African diaspora.

• Strategic partnerships development and stakeholder engagement.
• Spokesperson and external representative.

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• Launch inaugural higher education coursework and programing (recognized by TIME and Fast Company) to put +300 youth aged 17-25 through a hands-on learning experience focused on 21st century skills that would enable.
• Develop 15-22 week curriculum content, assessments, sessions utilizing business, human-centered design/design thinking, entrepreneurship and leadership education best practices for a program that can scale across 25.
• Optimize curriculum for real world learning. This was done through innovation-focused design challenges that embed human-centered design, a "Venture Incubator" to develop ideas and a "Prototype Lab" process to test.
• Conduct one-on-one youth leadership coaching & facilitate external mentoring for youth with industry leaders.
• Optimize E-Learning and multimedia tools for student-driven learning.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Implement intrapreneural programs to increase the impact of ~3000 of the world's leading social entrepreneurs.
• Manager (writing, editing, publication placement) for the publication of a series of ~20 thought leader articles published on Forbes, Fast Company, AllAfrica, Virgin.com etc.
• Contribute to "Youth Unstuck: Social Innovations Transforming Livelihoods and Leadership in Africa".Partnership Development and Community Building
• Develop and manage ongoing high-impact partnerships e.g. collaborative engagements with World Bank & prominent media like the Guardian, Forbes, AllAfrica etc.Innovation Sourcing and Evaluation
• Implement outreach to crowdsource 200 innovations within 6 months.
• Identify innovations through 4 competitions selecting the best entrepreneurial and innovative talent.Capacity Building Platform & Training

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Selected as 1 of 150 social innovation leaders from across the world
• Conduct research and implement partnership building efforts with graduate schools for the program focused on entrepreneurship, sustainability, social business.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Coordinate collaborations for program implementation amongst leads of 45 sub-projects focused on Global Health in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America for a multi-million dollar grant.
• Organize +4 international conferences annually with up to 250 attendees for each.
• Contribute to reports, handbooks and advertising for the program, analyzing data and sharing the results in a visual manner.
• Coordinate communications and shared databases for sub-projects.
• Manage procurement processes for events, advertising deals, supplies and other program operations.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Coordinate an international consortia working on a 2.5 million dollar global health genomic research project spanning across Europe, Asia, North and South America.

• Engaged founding teams in the design and implementation of online platforms focused on changing the narratives/storytelling about Africa to be driven by Africans and to create opportunities for youth.
• SenduQ was recognized in the top 5 in the African blog category for 3 consecutive years within a nascent African web landscape.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Conduct research and develop content about cutting-edge technology innovators and entrepreneurs across Africa

Washington, DC, US

• Managed and developed knowledge hubs intended to facilitate learning amongst practitioners focused on global health and mobile health technology

University Of Richmond, VA, US

University Of Richmond, VA, US

• Train patrons to use 13 different software tools & audio, camera and video equipment.
• Perform computer maintenance; install software, set up LAN network access for university patrons
• Troubleshoot hardware, software and network issues.

• Launched 1st ever large-scale youth-led fundraiser for drought in Addis Ababa that raised $2000 through partnerships & a series of events attended by +1000 people. Partnered with Menschen für Menschen, NGO with long.

Master Of Business Administration

Mastering Design Thinking Certificate

Bachelor Of Science, Double Majors, International Studies, Africa, Biochemistry And Molecular Biology

High School Diploma