Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji

Nigerian social entrepreneur

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1983

Place of Birth: Nigeria

Profession: businessperson

Nationality: Nigeria

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji (born Oluwatoyosi Akerele, 8 November 1983) is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and human development expert whose work cuts across entrepreneurship, education, youth development and public leadership.
She is the founder and chief executive officer of Rise Networks, a Nigeria-based private and public sector funded Youth Interest social enterprise focused on using tech innovation to create advocacy and learning opportunities for the inclusive growth of youths with the core objective of preparing them for leadership and social change.
She is also the founder of Passnownow, a mobile learning portal with access to curriculum-based education content with standardized assessments and exam review questions in digital format distributed via web and mobile to underserved high school students and teachers.Akerele-Ogunsiji was in June 2011 described by Michelle Obama, then First Lady of the United States, as one of her personal inspirations in a televised address to America as a prelude to her arrival in Africa for the Young African Women Leaders Forum of which Akerele-Ogunsiji remains the only Nigerian member to date.
In 2014, Forbes named Akerele-Ogunsiji as one of the 20 most Powerful Young Women in Africa.
In the same year, she was also nominated for the MTV Africa Music Awards.