Woman Crush Sunday: Carolyn Seaman.

Carolyn Seaman is a 35 years old Nigerian social entrepreneur, Founder & Creative Director of Girls Voices Initiative, a non-profit organization founded in 2013 to promote digital literacy and citizen journalism skills among girls and women, it is also a medium of advocating for the girl child through their stories. She is a lawyer with over a decade experience in gender development,currently focus on education technology whilst she promotes the girl child on STEM.

Carolyn Seaman recently, emerged as the winner of the United State of America based World Pulse’s prize to promote and amplify women’s voices.

Through her passion, she keeps encouraging and training women and the girl child to tell their stories through the digital media and through her digital action Campaign.

Through Girl Voices Initiative, Carolyn does not just give the girl child a voice, she also builds girl leaders who build and support other girls, Over 100,000 adolescent girls have been reached directly through Girl Voices Initiative’s girl-centred programs, and with its girl leaders, it has reached over 80 million people through various programs.

Carolyn was the only African to have participated in the World Pulse’s signature training program, voice of our future in 2016 and now she is also a 2017 TechWomen fellow.

One major reason she is our Woman Crush for today is because She is futuristic and optimistic about the girl's child use of the internet, video technology and digital technology tools for social development and change.

Continue in the good works Carolyn Seaman!!

#Women in Tech

# Female empowerment Leader

# Future Oriented Woman

# Closing the digital gap

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