The importance of Black & Ethnic Women in Data - Oyinkansola Adebayo - HER+Data MCR
Channel: Her Plus Data Manchester
Date: 18/02/2022

HER+Data MCR is a community working to connect, inspire, support and empower the NW UK’s Women in Data through monthly meetups. For our February 2022 event, we heard from Oyinkansola Adebayo, CEO & Founder of Niyo Enterprise about "The importance of Black & Ethnic Women in Data".

Speaker: Oyinkansola Adebayo, CEO & Founder of Niyo Enterprise
Title: The importance of Black & Ethnic Women in Data
Bio: Oyinkansola runs Niyo enterprise (https://niyoenterprise.com/), a company that specializes in using technology to economically empower black & ethnic women. This organisation currently has two brands: Niyo Hair and Beauty and Niyo Network. Niyo Hair and Beauty (https://niyohairandbeauty.com/) is a technology driven mobile afro hair and beauty service that services 400 clients across the midlands whilst economically empowering hairstylists. Niyo Network (https://niyonetwork.com/) exists to empower black & ethnic women to pursue their business ideas and career aspirations through technology driven bootcamps. Oyin has just trained over 70 black& ethnic women to become full stack developers and Unity Developers through the “black codher” bootcamp (https://blackcodher.com/) & black disruptor bootcamps, one of the projects under Niyo network and is set to empower a further 400 women this year including women in data. Some of her women have secured roles in KMPG and many more. Oyin holds a MSc in Development Economics and a BA in Business Management & Economics.

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