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My Story of Inspiration " I was born into a family which believes in making the best of its best! I remember vividly how my dad will always remind me of the popular quote, "doubts and faith are the two states of mind - I should choose faith and believe in myself." This served as a daily motivation to change my mind and reposition myself at the best of Judith Simons at any moment. I studied hard and always emerged the best student in my class from primary school until I gradu

My Story of Inspiration “In Junior High I was one of the top four students in my class. Interestingly enough, all four students were girls and together we were the best of friends. All teachers liked us a lot. However our colleagues started disliking us because of our success. The boys in our class started spreading false rumors about us. They said we were having affairs with our teachers and that was why the teachers gave us preferential treatment. But that was a lie. How is

My Story of Inspiration "I remember when I attended the Women In Machine Learning Conference organized by Yielding Accomplished African Women (YAA.W), I initially felt quite intimidated because my background was quite unconventional. Almost everyone around me was either working or schooling in the tech or finance fields and I was just coming from medical school. I was so glad when I met a fellow participant who was a clothing designer! Tech and finance is everywhere! I am so

My Story of Inspiration “Jack of all trades, Master of none” is a saying that resonated so much with me during and after my undergraduate studies." I had so many fields of interest in the tech industry. Before my final year in school, I was sure I wanted to be a front-end web developer. But by the time I was graduating, I had switched entirely to machine learning and data science after which I landed a job as a mobile applications developer. For as long as I could remember, I

My Story of Inspiration “Nothing hurts more than being laughed at for something you have little control over." My name is Abena Pokuaa Bandoh and I have always been plump since I was young. I used to be laughed at. I was forcefully nicknamed " Obolo (big)", " Biggie ", among others. Even though I was the smartest girl in class during my primary school days, I used to have very low self esteem. I would always hide at the back of the class. Up until my final year in high school

My Story of Inspiration “The prospect of occupying leadership positions and impacting lives in the process has always been my lifelong dream.'' I believed that setting the tone at the top and driving change through effective leadership was the best way to help people and encourage girls to aspire to be more. This singular thought pushed me to aspire and achieve leadership roles such as Head Prefect in Archbishop Porter Girls Senior High School and Deputy Electoral Commissione

Giving Tuesday Is Here!! This is the vision of Yielding Accomplished African Women to provide opportunity to the young African Women to learn and birth their potentials. We are building the largest ecosystem of African women in STEM in Africa. Will you share in this vision? Donate today to create a lasting impact and sustain more women here. Also, you can leverage your influence to change the lives of many young women in Africa following the below: Give for HER - Go to our w

Passion! We all have it. Our passion is the stepping stone of our future, the crippling factor to our fears or the data to our Machine Learning (ML) model. Maybe even that GPU that improves cloud computing greatly. Our passions lead us to various paths and down several learning curves, but as a woman passionate about technology and about solving problems of the society, I was led down the path of applying for the first ever Women in Machine Learning conference. Applying was

We have exciting news and we can’t hold it in anymore. Can you guess what it is? Yielding Accomplished African Women has launched our brand new website! We are constantly working on ways to improve and effectively spread our message of women empowerment through various platforms. We are excited about the new functions that are available on our website which makes your engagement with us more informative, more efficient and more engaging. Interested in collaborating or partne