She believes in the power of education to expand opportunities for underrepresented people, especially people of color. She envisions making education more accessible to those who desperately need it and contributing to a more equitable world.

Emily Ana Levy is the Mighty Well Co-Founder & President. She is also a Babson Alumnus with several accolades to her name to a name few include:

Follow Emily on her Social Media pages to learn more about her and the work she does at Mighty Well:

Emily Ana Levy's LinkedIn profile page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-ana-levy/

Emily Ana Levy's Instagram profile page: https://www.instagram.com/mightywell_emily/

Ari Jacobovits is an African Affairs strategist and educator focused on the intersection of International Studies and STEM. He serves as the Managing Director of MIT-Africa, connecting MIT students, staff, and faculty to internships, research projects, and teaching & learning opportunities that advance the research, innovation, and education goals of Africa-based organizations. Ari's background is in music, human and economic development, humanitarian affairs, and digital technologies encompassing a variety of business development and operations management roles. 
While studying early American music as an undergraduate, Ari became fascinated by African Studies, deciding to study abroad in African Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. After graduating, he worked in marketing with Zipcar, leaving to pursue his interest in African studies and economic development. Ari served in the United States Peace Corps - Kenya, where he worked with a fishing collective building the country’s first community-managed marine park. After completing the Peace Corps, Ari spent four years working with the State Department’s Refugee Admissions Program across Africa and in Washington, DC in both field operations and software operations, respectively. As a graduate student, Ari spent his summer as an operations management intern for the e-commerce company Jumia in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Ari holds a Masters of International Business with a specialization in Development Economics and Strategy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and a BA in Journalism and Music from Indiana University – Bloomington.

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Samuel Baddoo⁠ is empowering immigrants everywhere to show ❤️ with intention! (Part 2)

Starting with healthcare, his team at Fleri ensures that the money immigrants send back home goes exactly where they intended. Many words define who Samuel is but none more so than “immigrant” - his story represents the stories of millions of brave, hopeful and selfless individuals. Those who gave up the comfort of familiar spaces to create a new life and future for themselves and those who depend on them. He is all “IMMIGRANTS” and my life’s work is to see them live more authentically - flourishing and thriving, not just surviving.

⁠Fleri⁠ is a family care solution for immigrants in the diaspora, helping them take better care of their loved ones overseas by eliminating money transfers.

For all immigrants out there, we encourage you to recommend "Fleri" to your employers to sign up on the platform: https://joinfleri.com/

Samuel Baddoo is empowering immigrants everywhere to show ❤️ with intention!

Starting with healthcare, his team at Fleri ensures that the money immigrants send back home goes exactly where they intended. Many words define who Samuel is but none more so than “immigrant” - his story represents the stories of millions of brave, hopeful and selfless individuals. Those who gave up the comfort of familiar spaces to create a new life and future for themselves and those who depend on them. He is all “IMMIGRANTS” and my life’s work is to see them live more authentically - flourishing and thriving, not just surviving.

Fleri is a family care solution for immigrants in the diaspora, helping them take better care of their loved ones overseas by eliminating money transfers.

For all immigrants out there, we encourage you to recommend "Fleri" to your employers to sign up on the platform: https://joinfleri.com/

This is the 2nd episode (finally!!) for ⁠Builders of Africa's Future⁠ Cohort 2023 series with our partnership with ⁠African Diaspora Network⁠ ⁠⁠is Sr. Josephine Nabulya who belongs to the Institute of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Reparatrix- Ggogonya in Kampala, Uganda.

Sr. Josephine is an accountant by profession, from Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi and holds a Masters Degree in Administration and Management. Being interested in farming, Sr. Josephine feels called to create an impact in the lives of the people in community through farming by sharing the knowledge she has with them.

This year consists of incredible entrepreneurs spanning five countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. You can learn more about this year's cohort ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠

The BAF program seeks to recognize and support early-stage African entrepreneurs who significantly impact their communities. The sixth cohort of the BAF comprises ten entrepreneurs from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. All participating organizations in the cohort are 100% African-led and owned, operating in the Education, Recycling, Health Tech & Innovation, Poultry Farming, FinTech, Green Energy, and Coffee Farming sectors.

This 4th episode for Builders of Africa's Future Cohort 2023 series with our partnership with African Diaspora Network features ⁠Funto Boroffice ⁠is the founder/CEO of award winning ⁠Chanja Datti Ltd⁠, a waste collection & recycling social enterprise. Chanja Datti Ltd is dedicated to transforming the waste in her environment in Abuja, Nigeria into value by creating jobs and Quidroo, a fintech startup that provides access to working capital for Nigeria SMEs, especially women-owned SMEs. In the last 8+ years, her organization has successfully diverted almost 6,200 tons of waste from uncontrolled landfills, and empowered 600+ women and at-risk youth. Her organization currently has 200 employees.

Job Alert:

She is currently in search of a COO for her fintech startup, Quidroo, preferably a woman based in Nigeria who is also passionate about providing this opportunity of providing loans to SMEs in Nigeria and across Africa. Most importantly, she hopes this candidate's values aligns with hers.

You can directly reach out to her on her LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/olufunto-boroffice/) or via the host, Jacob Fohtung's LinkedIn page at [email protected].

Book Recommendations from Funto:

1. What Got You Here Won'T Get You There By Marshall Goldsmith

2. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins and HarperAudio

3. Jewish Wisdom for Business Success: Lessons for the Torah and Other Ancient Textsby Levi Brackman and Sam Jaffe

We want to apologize that we're currently still working on the 2nd episode that we had with Sr. Josephine Nabulya. Sister belongs to the Institute of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Reparatrix- Ggogonya in Kampala, Uganda. Sr. Josephine is an accountant by profession, from Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi and holds a Masters Degree in Administration and Management. This episode will release will be released as soon as possible.

This year consists of incredible entrepreneurs spanning five countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. You can learn more about this year's cohort ⁠⁠here⁠⁠

The BAF program seeks to recognize and support early-stage African entrepreneurs who significantly impact their communities. The sixth cohort of the BAF comprises ten entrepreneurs from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. All participating organizations in the cohort are 100% African-led and owned, operating in the Education, Recycling, Health Tech & Innovation, Poultry Farming, FinTech, Green Energy, and Coffee Farming sectors.

This is part 2 of my fascinating conversation with Joseph (Newton), CEO of Eracew: ⁠https://eracew.online/⁠.

Beyond being the CEO of Eracew, he is also the Regional Sales Coordinator at Nestle Professional, Youth Innovator, Software Engineer, Copywriter, Digital Marketer, Web/Graphic Designer, Waste to Resource Activist and many more with a focus on impact within his community.

Eracew is a technology company whose business is waste. They offer waste management, waste trading. They are the Uber for waste requests and the Amazon of waste trading providing a clear cut path for recycling, from the production of waste to the end-product through recycling you see everything.

Joseph is looking for a passionate entrepreneur to partner with in either Nigeria, Burundi or Zambia to facilitate managing a hub that will be giving small loans to startups. To learn more about this opportunity, you can reach out directly to Joseph via the contact the information provided below.

Additionally, for any entrepreneurs out there who are interested and want to participate in a free course on branding, Joseph and his team are organizing something in the nearest future (the certificate will cost a reasonable fee).

You can also reach out to him for more information about the program via [email protected]⁠ or via his LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-john-agyemang-newton/

The host, Jacob Fohtung will share some flyers about this program on his LinkedIn page.

This is part 1 of my fascinating conversation with Joseph (Newton), CEO of Eracew: https://eracew.online/.

Beyond being the CEO of Eracew, he is also the Regional Sales Coordinator at Nestle Professional, Youth Innovator, Software Engineer, Copywriter, Digital Marketer, Web/Graphic Designer, Waste to Resource Activist and many more with a focus on impact within his community.

Eracew is a technology company whose business is waste. We offer waste management, waste trading. They are the Uber for waste requests and the Amazon of waste trading providing a clear cut path for recycling, from the production of waste to the end-product through recycling you see everything.

Joseph recommended some great books in Part 2 of the episode. However, this list of books had to be shared earlier because it is fascinating one:

How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie

This 3rd episode features Mathias Charles Yabe is an award-winning Ghanaian social entrepreneur and innovator. He has interest in food security, clean energy solutions and climate change. He currently leads ⁠⁠AkoFresh⁠⁠, an AgriTech startup that offers smallholder farmers climate smart solutions to reduce post-harvest losses and alleviate poverty.

We want to apologize that we're currently working on the 2nd episode that we had with Sr. Josephine Nabulya. Sister belongs to the Institute of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Reparatrix- Ggogonya in Kampala, Uganda. Sr. Josephine is an accountant by profession, from Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi and holds a Masters Degree in Administration and Management.

This episode will release will be released as soon as possible.

This year consists of incredible entrepreneurs spanning five countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.You can learn more about this year's cohort ⁠here⁠

Mathias is an award-winning Ghanaian social entrepreneur and innovator. He has interest in food security, clean energy solutions and climate change. He currently leads ⁠AkoFresh⁠, an AgriTech startup that offers smallholder farmers climate smart solutions to reduce post-harvest losses and alleviate poverty.

Mathias’ contributions in various technology related solutions, has garnered acclaim as a “Top Youth4South Entrepreneur,” by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, and received recognition from Global Solutions Initiative, UpLink-World Economic Forum, FAO, and Prototypes for Humanity in Dubai.

The BAF program seeks to recognize and support early-stage African entrepreneurs who significantly impact their communities. The sixth cohort of the BAF comprises ten entrepreneurs from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. All participating organizations in the cohort are 100% African-led and owned, operating in the Education, Recycling, Health Tech & Innovation, Poultry Farming, FinTech, Green Energy, and Coffee Farming sectors.