New Website Home!!!

I’m happy to launch my website http://www.oreoluwa.com after what feels like many, many years in the making. On my website, I curate information about my work and interests (books, career development, social entrepreneurship, technology and women living their best lives). You can also continue to read my blog posts there, which means that I will

Girls and Technology: Bridging the Gap

At the end of April, I had the opportunity to co-moderate a discussion on Clubhouse for the first time – with Jumoke Adegbonmire of WillFran Consulting – on the topic “Educational Technology for Girls in Africa.” The Current Landscape: The disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to the educational system across the world has been

Being Visible in the Invisible Generation..

How life has changed. Does that sound like a cliche? Perhaps, but let me explain what I mean. I grew-up in a firmly middle-class family. Both my parents were engineers. They themselves grew-up in what were probably considered middle-class homes. They had the benefit of being born into families that cared about education and were

Finding Your Voice

Baby steps!! These pictures show possibly one of my first speaking engagements ever (co-incidentally an International Women’s Day event). After launching W.TEC in 2008, I found myself being invited for panels and conferences as an “expert on gender and technology issues.” As far as I was concerned, I was still learning about this space and

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

December is without a doubt, my favourite month of the year. And Christmas my favourite holiday. Perhaps I’m biased slightly by the fact that my birthday is a exactly week before Christmas Day. So, as a big kid inside, I still look forward to my birthday 40-something years after I first made my appearance on

The #EndSARS Movement

My organisation, the Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre – W.TEC shared a statement about the ongoing #EndSARS protests. As an organisation whose values rest on equality of opportunity for all, especially girls and women, we support the demand for a reformed police force with better working conditions and an understanding of their charge to “serve and

Are You Sure I Can Have it All?

“If she wants children and a job, a woman’s life is only as good as the man or woman she marries,” Moran writes. “That’s the biggest truth I know. All too often women are marrying their glass ceilings.” This statement leaped out at me from a Marie Claire article I read recently about how family

Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria

In June, I had the wonderful opportunity to moderate a panel at the launch of the Standard Chartered Bank #SCWomeninTech programme. #SCWomeninTech is a programme designed specifically by Standard Chartered for women-led technology ventures (specifically, early-to-mid stage professionals). The selected women founders would receive pre-seed funding, high-quality mentoring, acceleration and post-accelerator commercial support to help

Writing More

One of my goals for 2020 is to write more and maybe write something of significance. To write more, I need to – well to put it quite simply – write more. So, I am going to attempt to blog at least once a week and journal privately at least three times a week (daily

My Experience as an ICANN Fellow

By Oreoluwa Lesi I think it’s important to continually expand and deepen one’s field of knowledge. And being a social entrepreneur for the last dozen odd years, means that I have sought out books, articles, podcasts, interviews and other opportunities to learn more about social entrepreneurship. Over the last few years, my interest has increasingly