We’re excited to launch this new series: A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.  

Our second guest is Jamila Mayanja, CEO of Smart Girls Uganda.

Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast.

#buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork

We’re excited to launch this new series: A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network.

We’ll be profiling the African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.

Our first guest is Hyasintha Ntuyeko, CEO of Kasole Secrets, based in Tanzania.

Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast. 

#buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork

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Debra Pacio is the Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement Manager at Africa Diaspora Network (ADN). In collaboration with ADN, Doers Within Us Podcast will interview 11 Builders of Africa’s Future, a program within ADN in the months of May and June of 2022. 

Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) celebrates innovation and impact in early-stage African enterprises. The program identifies African entrepreneurs running early-stage nonprofits or for-profit businesses that address key community needs through technology or differentiated business models. 

The mission of ADN is to sustainably serve its constituencies, marketplace, and partners. This is inextricably linked to engaging the African diaspora through an ethics of care, enhancing their well-being in their adopted homelands, and facilitating their strategic involvement in the development of Africa and the communities in which we live.

Satoshi Shinada is the General Partner of Kepple Africa Ventures and a 2019 MBA graduate of Harvard Business School. Learn more about Satoshi via his LinkedIn profile. Learn more about Kepple Africa Ventures.

New Series- Doers Within Us: Doers Within Babson

Rebecca Jiang’21 (Babson)

Rebecca Jiang graduated from Babson College in May 2021, and now works as a recruiter for a consulting company. In her free time, she enjoys thrifting, attending concerts, and going to the beach.

Misha Lau’21 (Babson)

Misha Lau graduated from Babson College in May 2021. She currently lives in LA (with Rebecca) and works in product marketing at a San Francisco-based tech start up. Some of her hobbies are hiking, playing spike ball, and reading at a park.

For more information about Rebecca, Misha and their passion project, Unspoken Words here is a Babson Blog about their story

Check out Unspoken Words’ website, and join the mailing list to be the first to know when the card game launches this year. Follow along their journey on Instagram or Twitter.

Adam Sharpe is a futurist and meaningful youth engagement specialist. Having spent over a decade in the development sector delivering educational programming to hundreds of thousands of people throughout Asia and Europe, Adam recognised the urgent need for a seismic shift in education and skills building to meet today's and tomorrow's collective challenges.  

He founded youth futures think tank and transformative foresight consultancy Futurely, co-founded the online futures learning platform Metafuture School, and consults for multinational organisations including the UN and the Asian Development Bank. 

He is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists and sits on the advisory board of NOICE Sustainable Cosmetics and Rapid Asia. 

Adam Sharpe's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mradamsharpe/ 

Learn more about Futurely: https://www.futurely.online 

Learn more about the courses at Metafuture school: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metafuture/