LinkedIn | Christiana Bangura

Christiana Mary-Magdalene Bangura is the Founder and Director of Girls In STEM Initiative SL and STEM Empowerment Center. It forms a community-based organisation that advocates, inspires and mentors young girls to have an interest in STEM and TECH education. The skills training center empowers and supports young people from vulnerable communities with life skills to cut down on the high rate of unskilled and unemployed youths. Within her community, Christiana is the Focal Point for Media Matters for Women and an ICT facilitator for the DigiTruck Salone project. Christiana has been in the spotlight in her district as one of the 30 most influential rural women and is a two-time academic award winner for her zest to promote education with and for young women and girls in her community and district. Christiana aims to break the gender stereotypes gap in TECH and STEM education for rural women and girls leaving no one behind in this digital age.