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ALD Online 2020 Women in STEM Advocates: 14. Naadiya Moosajee

Posted on October 13, 2020October 12, 2020 by Stephanie

Naadiya Moosajee

Location: South Africa

Naadiya is an entrepreneur and engineer who co-founded WomHub, an incubator for female-led STEM businesses, and is also a co-founder of WomEng. She was listed as one of the 20 Youngest Power Women In Africa 2014, was a Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards Finalist in 2017 and was one of 12 African leaders accepted onto the Facebook Community Accelerator this year.

You can follow her work here:

Twitter: @NaadiyaMoosajee
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/naadiya-moosajee-a8800810
Website: womeng.org

Further reading

• Naadiya Moosajee, Wikipedia
• Just 1 in 5 Engineers in South Africa Are Women. It Inspired This Engineer to Break Down Barriers, Global Citizen, 23 March 2020
• Naadiya Moosajee-Civil Engineer, Entrepreneur, Global Women Engineering Advocate (podcast), Ordinarily Extraordinary – Conversations with women in STEM, 11 July 2020

ALD Online 2020 Women in STEM Organisations: 14. Arab Women in Computing (ArabWIC)

Posted on October 13, 2020October 12, 2020 by Stephanie

Arab Women in Computing (ArabWIC)

Location: United Arab Emirates

Arab Women in Computing (ArabWIC) was founded in 2012 and is a not-for-profit which highlights Arab women in tech through networking and events. They have over 2,500 members across chapters in 17 countries. ArabWIC collaborate with a number of organisations and educational institutions, such as Women in Data Science (WiDS), to hold events and conferences in the Middle East, and were also one of five NGOs to participate in the Girls Got IT initiative.

You can follow their work here:

Twitter: @ArabWIC
Facebook: facebook.com/arabwic
Instagram: @arabwic
YouTube: Arab Women In Computing (ArabWIC)
LinkedIn: Arab Women in Computing (ArabWIC)
Website: arabwic.org

Further reading

• ArabWIC conference tackles gender issues in tech sector, The Daily Star, 11 August 2017
• Greater opportunities but entrenched stereotypes for Arab women in data science, Khadija Hamouchi, The Arab Weekly, 15 April 2018
• The International Conference for Arab Women in Computer Science begins its work in Rabat (original in French), Article19, 7 March 2019
• Arab girls invited to compete in Doha digital Hackathon, Gulf Times, 12 September 2019

ALD Online 2020 Women in STEM Advocates: 13. Hema Vallabh

Posted on October 13, 2020October 12, 2020 by Stephanie

Hema Vallabh

Location: South Africa

Hema is an engineer and entrepreneur co-founded WomEng to address the issues facing women in engineering. She is also Co-Founder and CEO of WomHub, an incubator for female founders in STEM. Hema was recently chosen as one of South Africa’s Inspiring Fifty and, in 2017, was awarded the Fortune/Goldman Sachs Global Leader’s Award.

You can follow her work here:

Twitter: @HemsVallabh
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/hemavallabh
Website: womeng.org

Further reading

• Are women set to be the engineers of the future?: Hema Vallabh at TEDxJohannesburgWomen 2013, TEDx Talks, 16 December 2013
• On Mentoring, Hema Vallabh, Vital Voices, March 2014
• #WomensMonth: How WomEng is displacing the glass ceiling to make room for more women in engineering, Sindy Peters, Biz Community, 17 August 2017
• 2020 Best & Brightest EMBAs: Hema Vallabh, University of Oxford (Saïd), Jeff Schmitt, Poets&Quants for Executives, 25 July 2020

ALD Online 2020 Women in STEM Organisations: 13. Levers in Heels

Posted on October 13, 2020October 12, 2020 by Stephanie

Levers in Heels

Location: Ghana

Levers in Heels is a digital platform which celebrates and profiles African women in STEM, founded in 2013 to inspire the next generation. In 2018, they collaborated with The Exploratory, and African Women in Science and Engineering on the project ‘Letters from Black Women in STEM to their Young Selves‘. They run a mentorship programme, careers webinars and are currently collating a list of African women scientists involved in Covid-19 research and leadership.

You can follow their work here:

Twitter: @leversinheels
Facebook: facebook.com/leversinheels
Instagram: @leversinheels
YouTube: Levers in Heels
LinkedIn: Levers in Heels
Website: leversinheels.com

Further reading

• Larisa Bowen-Dodoo: African Women in STEM are Real, Adisa Amanor-Wilks, She Leads Africa
• Larisa Bowen-Dodoo: A Young Ghanaian Woman Striving To Put STEM On The Radar, Felix Omondi, Innov8tiv, 13 May 2014
• I Didn’t Think There Were Many African Women Scientists. Then I Checked Twitter, Esther Ngumbi, NPR, 11 February 2018
• Emerging African women scientists in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (original in Spanish), Ángeles Jurado, El Pais, 12 Feb 2020

ALD Online 2020 Women in STEM Advocates: 12. Alexandra Anghel

Posted on October 13, 2020October 12, 2020 by Stephanie

Alexandra Anghel

Location: Romania

Alexandra is an entrepreneur, Co-Founder and CTO of MorphL, and Program Director of StepFWD who co-founded Codette to promote diversity and education for women in tech.

You can follow her work here:

Twitter: @anghelalexandra
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alexandraanghel
GitHub: github.com/anghelalexandra
Website: codette.ro

Further reading

• Alexandra Anghel Co-Founder and CTO of Appticles Romania, The Hundert Vol 8, May 2016
• One of the poorest countries in the EU could be its next tech-startup hub, Sarah Shearman, Quarz, 23 August 2016
• Women change the rules of the game in Tech (video, original in Romanian), Alina Păduraru, Recorder, 12 March 2018
• Alexandra Anghel: Women in IT and the opportunities in CEE, Discover CEE, 7 August 2018