Bridgette Sokhandan

Pioneered Africa's largest network empowering women in tech through innovative education programs

Bridgette Sokhandan is a Nigerian tech entrepreneur and social innovator who founded WiMNinTech in 2020, a platform that has transformed the African tech landscape by creating pathways for 15,000+ women to enter STEM fields. Through her CodeBridge initiative, she developed Africa's first gender-inclusive coding curriculum integrated with local language support, directly addressing the continent's digital divide. Her work has been recognized by the United Nations Development Programme as a model for tech equity, leading to partnerships with governments in Kenya, Ghana and South Africa. Sokhandan's Code for Change hackathons have produced solutions to challenges like maternal healthcare tracking systems and crop monitoring apps used by 2 million smallholder farmers. In 2023, she launched the Pan-African Tech Policy Hub, shaping regulatory frameworks to protect digital rights across 19 countries. Her TEDx talk "Codebreaking Gender Barriers" has over 2M views, inspiring global movements like India's GirlsCodeRevolution.