As a young girl growing up in Nigeria, Dr. Isi Idemudia faced many fears  and odds against her. In a society that idolizes boys and promotes  female child marriages, and with no female role models, she became  determined to rise above her circumstances by facing her fears head on  and do something no female she knew had done. She enrolled in college to  study computer Engineering. She was in a class of 150 students, where  less than 1% were female, and there was only one computer for everyone  to learn from. Despite the difficulty, she focused on absorbing all the  information taught to her, and after graduating with her PhD in  Technology Management, she attained a position at one of the world’s  largest IT consulting firms in the United States.