About Me

Unoma Ndili Okorafor is a Nigerian computer scientist and entrepreneur. Okorafor founded Working to Advance African Women, a non-profit that supports the education of African women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in 2007. She is the Chief Executive Officer at Herbal Goodness and Fairview Data Technologies.

Okorafor was born in Nigeria. She studied computer and electrical engineering at the University of Lagos, graduating in 2008. She moved to Texas for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree at Rice University in 2001 and a PhD from Texas A&M University in 2008. At Texas A&M University she was a Sloan Foundation Scholar. Okorafor married Ekpe Okorafor and had two children whilst a graduate student. Her PhD, Secure Integrated Routing and Localization in Wireless Optical Sensor Networks, was supervised by Deepa Kundur. She then joined Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she completed an Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship. She also completed the Social Entrepreneurship program at INSEAD.

Awards And Honors

2018

One of OkayAfrica's Top 100 Women in 2018

2016

ITU and UN Women GEM Tech Award

2013

Anita Borg Social Change Agent Award

2010

Crans Montana Leaders Forum "Future World leader

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Your positive actions combined with positive thinking results in success

– Unoma Ukorafor

Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business
2010

Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship

INSEAD
2009

Social Entrepreneurship Program

Texas A&M University
2003 -2008

PhD, Engineering - computer/electrical

Rice University
1999 - 2001

MSc, Computer/Electrical Engineering

University of Lagos
1991 -1998

BSc, Engineering

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