I first learned about FMB (Maio Biodiversity Foundation) – a non-profit organisation dedicated to the protection of local biodiversity and ecosystems in Maio, a small island in Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa – in our Organisational Behaviour (OB) class at INSEAD. FMB was also the focus of INSEAD Master Strategist Day in October 2021.

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This internship experience was supported by the INSEAD Hoffmann Institute Impact Internship Stipend. During my summer internship at INSEAD, I had the opportunity to work at AfricInvest, based in Tunis, Tunisia.

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This internship experience was supported by the INSEAD Hoffmann Institute Impact Internship Stipend. For my 2022 summer internship, I joined Jumanji Studio on a journey to build a platform that would connect people working and interested in the impact space.

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This internship experience was supported by the INSEAD Hoffmann Institute Impact Internship Stipend.

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This internship experience was supported by the INSEAD Hoffmann Institute Impact Internship Stipend.

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This internship experience was supported by the INSEAD Hoffmann Institute Impact Internship Stipend. Interning at Almouneer allowed me to learn how to scale up a business and how leadership, friendship, and persistence play the most crucial role when creating a company. 

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The project to run and track our collective progress via an app first started as an effort to keep the GEMBA19 cohort together when physically apart, and to help get us into better shape (fit body, fit mind). We also wanted to showcase our diversity and lastly, but most importantly, to be a force for good. 

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Prior to INSEAD, I had worked for four years in financial markets advisories in the US, and by coming to INSEAD, I always hoped that I would be able to do something that I had never done and go somewhere that I had never been. A summer at African Leadership Finance Company (ALFC) in Nairobi, Kenya hit two birds with one stone with the help of the INSEAD Social Impact Award. The reason for doing this internship was threefold:

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