After helping to design fellowship programs which support entrepreneurs for three years, from time to time, I serve as an evaluator for said programs such as Echoing Green, and the Mandela Washington Fellowship. These spaces cultivated my optimistic can do attitude, and are why I continue
to give back to them.
NOW
Working
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Full time Senior Associate at Seedstars Africa Ventures, heading up the West Africa office in Senegal
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I'm particularly interested in companies at the intersection of Culture, Fintech & Climate​
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Built a movement for inclusive economics through centering Black women at the Sadie Collective, winning several six-figure contracts & raising several millions of dollars
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Start up advisor for several startups in the diaspora with VC experience from Commonweal Ventures, CT Innovations and Achebe Capital
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Former economist and consultant with JP Morgan Philanthropy to advance women of color's economic livelihoods in the DC, Maryland and Virginia region
Learning
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If you been following my career, you know it's been a long journey towards graduation and receiving my degree from the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. I'm now finishng up studies with the DreamVC Accelerator program, and just conclused the Said Business School's "Africa Venture Finance" program.
Favorite Tools
Travel
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Q4: Senegal
Location
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For now, in West Africa, with bicontential tendencies towards the United States