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.