Angela Syombua Nzioki

Angela Nzioki is the co-founder and country manager of Pluspeople Kenya Ltd. This Kenyan IT company has been recognized and earned awards for its focus on empowering small and medium enterprises in East Africa by offering IT solutions to professionally manage their businesses. Angela is passionate about IT and mentoring. She volunteers in various programs, where she mentors young, underserved girls; mid-career women; and older, less privileged micro-business women owners. Angela Syombua Nzioki was a Zambezi Prize finalist for her social entrepreneurship, an award presented by the Legatum Center at MIT and the MasterCard Foundation. She is also a Skoll World Forum Young Leader (2016), an initiative that recognizes global young leaders in the field of social entrepreneurship. After the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Angela plans to continue empowering SMEs, with a special focus on solutions for underserved and underprivileged micro-businesses, enabling them to be financially included.