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Tech, Education, and Making a Difference in South Africa: Meet Justinus Adriaanse

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Nelson Mandela’s 1999 retirement brought these injustices further to the forefront, unveiling the deep-rooted inequalities within South Africa’s education system and society as a whole. That summer, he completed a three-month software development bootcamp in Chicago called Starter League.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). Her network from her educational institutions alone has friends in all of the top tech, media & banking institutions. Startup CEO experience (Founded P.S. XO along with my good friend Soleil Moon Frye.

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Creating agents of change in El Salvador with sustainable wearable art

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

I moved back to El Salvador and started working toward my own dream at the end of 2015 with Masshii and started inspiring others to do the same. Masshii’s objective is to create opportunities for at-risk women in El Salvador who have little or no opportunity for proper education, training, or jobs. What is the mission of Masshii? .

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One woman’s path to financial empowerment leads the way

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love.

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Meet the man empowering young leaders by starting with their computer repairs

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

On top of his demanding work of technology repairs, Janeel has made the time to discover new ways to help others as a radio personality and program director at Dominion Radio since 2015 with his program IT Talks. Why do you think it is important to educate the community about technology? . IT is everything. government.

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How adaptability during a pandemic transformed this YLAI Fellow’s Honduran sustainability company

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

In 2015, she was able to merge these two passions together to create her company, Beleaf. Through years of production and education, the community has begun to reflect sustainable values by creating their own clothes through upcycling old materials. By Angie Garozzo. What’s in the future for Beleaf?

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

As with any movement, there comes a day when grand visions need to either remain that, or be executed on so that they may evolve to the next stage of development and maturation. Someone who could understand the current landscape, help envision where we want to be and collaboratively develop a plan to get there.”.