Samira Modibbo is a multiple award-winning humanitarian and development worker, technopreneur, and civic leader with over five years of experience in the humanitarian and nonprofit sectors.
She works with marginalized communities in Nigeria, rendering humanitarian relief and supporting NGOs that empower women and young girls through Education, Leadership, and Technology Based Businesses skills, to enable them to rise above challenges and achieve financial independence and lead transformational changes in their communities!
Samira has over the years led and supported diverse teams on high-impact interventions that have influenced policy reforms, educated and empowered over 27,000 women, young girls, and out-of-school children, and reached out to over 50,000 people via massive on-air and in-community awareness campaigns on the need to support gender equality, educate and empower women and young girls.
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She is succeeding in breaking the circle of Gender Based Violence and bridging the evidence-based gender gap in STEM by educating women and getting them equipped with scalable and transferable digital skills, teaching them innovative technology-based entrepreneurship, connecting them with opportunities for training, internships, funding, and guiding schoolgirls to define their career paths in STEM.
Her work with UNFPA, UNICEF, PLAN International, the Nigerian Government, and other organizations has inspired hundreds of women to achieve financial independence and influenced young girls in Northern Nigeria to get back to school and stay in school to at least secondary school completion. She works with partners to generate funding for girls’ education and women’s economic development.
Samira earned her undergraduate education in computer science, postgraduate education in cyber security and forensics, and trained in leadership and civic engagement. She’s an avid Volunteer and a strong advocate for social justice!
