Creating Forever: Onboarding Diverse Populations into Emerging Technologies to Solve the Global Digital Divide, with Iris Nevins @ Umba Daima

Iris Nevins is the co-founder and CEO of Umba Daima, a venture studio operating at the intersection of technology, community, and art. Umba Daima aims to increase economic opportunity around the world by closing the digital divide. They are currently incubating 3 initiatives to push this mission forward. Iris is a former social studies teacher and grassroots community organizer who eventually became a software engineer after realizing that tech could be used to solve large-scale societal problems. After attending a coding bootcamp in San Francisco, she became a software engineer at Mailchimp and then eventually an engineering manager at Mailchimp and Vox Media. Iris used her resourcefulness, leadership background, and effectiveness at running projects to become a manager early in her engineering career and has been building/leading teams full time ever since. She has been passionate about social impact since the age of 16 when she attended an international merit-based high school program with 300 kids from around the world. After that she attended Pomona College where she studied Economics and Black History. Iris is passionate about solving problems through tech and empowering cultural communities around the world.