Unoma Okorafor, Co-Founder, Fairview Data Technologies


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When Unoma Okorafor started working on her master's degree in computer science at the African University of Science and Technology in Abuja, Nigeria, in the mid-'90s, she had no idea she'd end up in Silicon Valley.

"I didn't know there was such a thing as entrepreneurship in Nigeria," she tells the New York Times.

"I didn't know there was such a thing as women in tech."

But after working at Intel, HP, and IBM, Okorafor founded the nonprofit WAAW Foundation in 2017 to promote science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education for African women, and to ensure that talent is engaged in technology innovation on the African continent, the Times reports.

Now she's working to change that.

Okorafor is the president and founder of WAAW, as well as the founder and CEO of Herbal Goodness, a health and wellness company; she's also the co-founder and principal at Fairview Data Technologies, a data science company operating in manufacturing and supply chain; and she's a grad of INSEAD's social entrepreneurship program and Stanford University Business School's executive program in social entrepreneurship.

She's also worked at Intel, HP

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