Matt Hangen grew up in the county outskirts in South Alabama at Rt. 1, Lot 1 on a two-track sand road, starting life in a 600 sq ft abandoned farmhouse that his dad had worked board-by-board to rebuild. At 25, he moved to Togo, West Africa, and began building equipment from what was lying around to drill wells and install water pumps through local businesses. That 100 feet of soil and rock separated people from life and death was an obstacle worth overcoming in Matt’s heart.  Faced with the...

Dr. Nehemiah J. Mabry is the Founder and CEO of STEMedia.    STEMedia is an edtech and digital media company that provides edutainment content for the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) community.   Dr. Mabry participated in the first cohort of Accelerating Black Leadership and Entrepreneurship (ABLE), an enterprise accelerator program designed to strengthen, energize, and support startups and small businesses led by Black entrepreneurs in the United States within the African...

The series ends. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network's Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort. Our eleventh guest is Victor and Dela of Ento Farms Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast: #buildersofafrica #future #changemakers...

The series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network's Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort. Our tenth guest is Victor and Dela of Ento Farms Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast: #buildersofafrica #future #changemakers...

The series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network's Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort. Our ninth guest is Dr. Hanane Chaibainou_CEO and Co-Founder of Biotessia  Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our...

The series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network's Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort. Our eighth guest is Sr. Juunza C. Mwangani-Emerging Farmers Initiative (EFI)  Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our...

Alexander Thomson-Payan is a Babson Alumnus (Class of 2006) and Founder of Thomson Group International (TGI).  TGI is a pan-African holding company based in Luanda, Angola with offices in Miami, London, and Hong Kong. TGI's portfolio companies operate in Telecommunications, Logistics/Supply Management, Transportation, Mobile Technology, and Real Estate Development sectors.  In 2007, Alexander at the age of 22 raised over $100,000 from his friends and set on a journey to Angola to start...

The series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network's Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort. Our seventh guest is Justine Abuga, Co-founder of ECOBORA. Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast: #buildersofafrica #future...

The series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network's Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.  Our fifth Builder for Africa Future is George Akilimali, CEO and Co-Founder of Smartcore Enterprise Limited.  Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network...

The series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network's Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.  Our fourth guest is Dr. Ahimbisbwe Prosper , Co-founder of mSCAN.    Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast.  #buildersofafrica...

Jacques Jonathan is of Counsel at Cabinet Nyemb. He is a lawyer and public policy specialist. He mainly advises companies (multinationals, private equity firms, emerging and start-up companies), financial institutions and sovereign entities seeking to develop, acquire, operate, finance or restructure local and international projects or businesses in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, he also has extensive experience advising governments and other local or international public-sector related...

Adam Sulkowski- Associate Professor at Babson College and Author of Extreme Entrepreneurship    We talked about the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, and we pondered 3 important quotes: The Process over Product, You are good enough, and it is important we talk about failures in our stories (look at the last past 3 episodes of the podcast) Adam's +50 publications on business, law, and sustainability are available through the links below. He advises through MIT Enterprise Forum CEE and...

The series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort. Our fourth guest is Sr. Jane Frances Kabagaaju, Nkuruba Health Centre  Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast. #buildersofafrica...

The series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort. Our third guest is Sister Rose Thumitho- Mother Kevin Providence Social Enterprise  Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our...

We’re excited to launch this new series: A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.   Our second guest is Jamila Mayanja, CEO of Smart Girls Uganda. Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our...

We’re excited to launch this new series: A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We’ll be profiling the African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort. Our first guest is Hyasintha Ntuyeko, CEO of Kasole Secrets, based in Tanzania. Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on...

At Praise Shadows Art Gallery, they believe that the art ecosystem is filled with untapped potential, and our work is rooted in partnering closely with artists to develop opportunities in emerging models of creativity and entrepreneurship — exhibitions, commissions, brand partnerships, new technologies, original concepts that no one has ever tried before. Praise Shadows Art Gallery is a commercial gallery space in the Boston area showing the work of emerging and mid-career artists. It opened...

Debra Pacio is the Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement Manager at Africa Diaspora Network (ADN). In collaboration with ADN, Doers Within Us Podcast will interview 11 Builders of Africa’s Future, a program within ADN in the months of May and June of 2022.  Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) celebrates innovation and impact in early-stage African enterprises. The program identifies African entrepreneurs running early-stage nonprofits or for-profit businesses that address key community...

Cathy Yee is all about bringing social change through diversity in film. In addition, to being the founder of Incluvie. She is an Inventor and 2x patent holder. Masters in Engineering. She likes creating & fixing things, and Loves bringing people together. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/doerswithin/message

Bright Chinyundu is the CEO of Sparco. Sparco is a Pan African Financial Technology company founded in Delaware, USA with an operational base in South Africa, Uganda and Zambia. We provide financial solutions to both Individuals and the corporate sector in emerging markets across Africa and the rest of the globe. Our payment Infrastructure orchestrates various market players on the continent and enables African businesses to send and receive money, proficiently. Sparco evolved from BroadPay,...

Satoshi Shinada is the General Partner of Kepple Africa Ventures and a 2019 MBA graduate of Harvard Business School. Learn more about Satoshi via his LinkedIn profile. Learn more about Kepple Africa Ventures. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/doerswithin/message

New Series- Doers Within Us: Doers Within Babson Rebecca Jiang’21 (Babson) Rebecca Jiang graduated from Babson College in May 2021, and now works as a recruiter for a consulting company. In her free time, she enjoys thrifting, attending concerts, and going to the beach. Misha Lau’21 (Babson) Misha Lau graduated from Babson College in May 2021. She currently lives in LA (with Rebecca) and works in product marketing at a San Francisco-based tech start up. Some of her hobbies are hiking,...

Adam Sharpe is a futurist and meaningful youth engagement specialist. Having spent over a decade in the development sector delivering educational programming to hundreds of thousands of people throughout Asia and Europe, Adam recognised the urgent need for a seismic shift in education and skills building to meet today's and tomorrow's collective challenges.   He founded youth futures think tank and transformative foresight consultancy Futurely, co-founded the online futures learning platform...

Gana is currently an MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School and Co-Founder at Garage Mobility, an auto tech startup transforming transportation for Africa. Previously, he worked at Boeing as a Product manager within Boeing's Product Development organization, where he led a team on a new platform development initiative. Gana graduated from Georgia Tech with a BS in Electrical Engineering and a MS in Data Analytics. He co-founded Kebuthreads, an African inspired clothing brand and is a casual...

Victor Asemota is a technology entrepreneur and investor who serves as a board member and advisor to leading fintech and investment firms across Africa. He is Africa Partner for Alta Global Ventures, the founder of SwiftaCorp, and an advisory board member of Assets and Resource Management.    A co-founder of the African Diaspora Mentorship and Investment Network, Victor is committed to the growth and mentorship of the next generation of talent on the continent. He volunteers as a global...