About me
Njideka U. Harry is a Leadership Group Member and Global Vice President, Strategic Entrepreneurship Relationships at Ashoka. In this role, she oversees "Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur," an exclusive network of high-impact entrepreneurs who partner with Ashoka's most powerful social entrepreneurs to change the way people harness their social, political, financial and intellectual capital to create lasting systemic change (e2.ashoka.org).
A two-time founder herself, Njideka founded Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF), an education technology citizen sector organization (www.youthfortechnology.org). YTF leverages appropriate technology for education and entrepreneurship, replacing economic disparity with economic opportunity in underserved communities. She was selected as an Ashoka Fellow for this work in 2011. She Founded 3D Printing Academy for Girls, an education technology start-up teaching girls to use emerging technologies, like 3D printing to create a world they envision (https://3dprintingacademyforgirls.com/).
A Fellow at the World Economic Forum, Njideka serves on the Artificial Intelligence for Social Innovation and Education 4.0, Accelerating Digital Inclusion and Transformation of Industries committees. She is an advisory board member of the Alliance for Affordable Internet, an expert contributor for the prosperity index at the Legatum Institute and is on the Global Advisory Council of TWIN Tech. She has served on the Kellogg Advisory Council at Northwestern University. Before beginning a career in social impact and philanthropy, Njideka had an extensive career in various finance, product development and strategy roles at GE Capital and Microsoft working in North America, Africa and Europe.
Njideka earned her Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She completed post-graduate studies at Stanford University, where she was a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow.
Toward a more Equitable Tech Future: https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/magazine/departments/spring-summer-2022/njideka-harry.aspx