"I haven't just seen the impact of communities in my life but in the lives of so many people so it is very important. That is why I am motivated to pay it forward by building developer communities which would, in turn, help other people join the tech world and scale through faster. Asikpo on her motivation for building tech communities"

"Whenever I feel like an imposter, I remind myself about the things I have achieved so far no matter how small it might have been. I tell myself that if I could do it before, I can as well do it again and even better this time."

"Being a developer advocate is just an opportunity to do a lot of things at the same time I get to write, to speak, to code, and meet amazing people.”"

"I believe women who fought for equality centuries ago probably thought that women won't have to face certain biases in the 21st century, but that is not the case sadly. Asikpo on gender inequality"

"Personally, I can’t remember being in a situation where I felt I was not treated as equal. However, I have seen it happen to other Women in Tech. Asikpo speaking on gender inequality in the TECH industry"

"I figured repurposing my talks into articles will be a win-win situation because I’d get to reach two different audiences via speaking and writing.Asikpo on why she ventured into tech writing"

"we write to educate others but we also write to improve our skills and also help our future self.Asikpo on the importance of technical writing"

"“What makes you happy at the end of the day in the nonprofit space is not earning millions of dollars, or Naira,” she says. “Fulfillment comes from seeing a woman learn a skill and use that skill to get a job—changing that woman’s life, the life of her family, and bringing prosperity to her immediate community.”"

"I wanted to be an entrepreneur because it would allow me to make critical decisions, implement them, and more importantly, to make a difference.”"

"“People have deep-rooted gender biases that they are sometimes not even aware of.” ** https://som.yale.edu/profile/oladiwura-diwura-oladepo-18"

"“The dream was to solve the world’s greatest problems using technology, we thought about technology as being an enabler, as giving people access to opportunities.”"

""The challenges I faced mainly involved fear of taking leadership positions, self-doubt, and not feeling like I belonged."Velda on the challenges she faced as a woman in TECH"

""I love the fact that you can easily get involved in it despite your background and there is a lot of vibrant communities in it too." Velda on her favourite thing about TECH"

"“Technology is one of very few sectors in Africa where there is no nepotism, It’s not, ‘Oh, my cousin needs a job. Can you help?’ Tech is strictly merit based. If you’re good at what you do, that charts a course for you.”"

""You belong in this industry as much as everyone else, you can and will add value in your own unique way. You will definitely experience challenges and detours, enjoy the process be kind to yourself, learn, and unlearn. Put in your 1% daily, there is power inconsistency." Velda to women in TECH"

""I also wanted to understand how we could use technology to make my parent's workplace better." Velda on her motivation for venturing into TECH"

"" We need more women across, not necessarily being founders, being product managers and being customer experience. We need just more women across the entire value chain so that there's no more news that like you're a woman founder. There's no term like male founder. "Yanmo on the need for more involvement from women in the African TECH industry"

"My general philosophy about life is: what’s the worst that could happen? If I reflect on this, and I am okay with the worst‑case scenario, then why not?"

"What I do tell women in general is that whatever dream you have, whatever goal you have there is room to scale it."

"“As a society, we need to make it easier for women to become founders, to enter tech, to start learning to code, or know what other opportunities are available. Spaces need to be safer for women — women are over mentored and underfunded. They don’t need another seminar; give them a check."

"" It's always shocking to me just how few female founders there are across the board. If you check the Africa stats, there's less, there's maybe five, at least in Nigeria, female founders who've raised a Series A. And we're not even talking about sole female founders, just literally companies with a female co-founder." Yanmo speaking on gender inequality in the African TECH space"

"I wouldn't advise anyone to start a tech company unless it was your dream."

"Yanmo Omorogbe(born November 2,1994) is a Nigerian entrepreneur and finance professional."

"It is appalling that while families gathered under fireworks to honor that sacrifice, the Trump administration was all-too-quietly forcing out thousands of patriots from military service."

"This decision to remove proven patriots for no justification causes serious weakness to our force. It turns away proven courage."

"These individuals met the same rigorous standards as their peers—the same physical exams, the same screenings, the same background checks. And in many cases, under intense scrutiny, they didn’t just meet those standards—they exceeded them."

"Today in America, LGBTQ people are still targeted by hate that lives in both laws and hearts."

"I worried that my dreams and my identity were mutually exclusive. Since then, I’ve seen change."

"These are Americans who have served with honor, with distinction, and with unshakable patriotism. Brave, honorable, and committed patriots, who have also dared to have the courage to say out loud that they are transgender."

"The women in tech community in Nigeria and Africa still has a very long way to go, there’s so many potentials in girls, ladies and women here, once we acknowledge that we have to start from the grass-root up, it gets a lot easier having them embrace the ideology of W.I.T. I personally believe with the right support, initiatives and personnel, larger input can be gotten from the ladies."

"“I know what communities have done for me personally. Communities have had a huge impact on my career growth.” — On why she founded She Code Africa."

"I never let anything/situation derail me,⅚ if I can work hard and come this far in Software development without a B.Sc degree in Computer science, then I or anyone else can achieve whatever it is they set their mind to"

"Set goals, work hard towards them, Achieve them."

"I’m known as the go-getter, the one who’s always trying out new things, the one who pushes a little harder."

"Being a woman in tech doesn’t just stop at bearing the title, the rest of the world is expectant to see what you can do, how far you can go, how resilient you can be, how smart your brains are and at every given opportunity, do not derail in letting them know your worth!"

"You’re Smart, You’re Beautiful, You’re Intelligent! You’re a definition of Beauty and Brains."

"It all started with watching the movie “The Intern“, which sort of mirrored life at Google, i got fascinated by it and decided to take my love for gadgets a step further, I became an active member of the Google student club while in my 2nd year, attending designs and code classes / events."

"Interacting with developers who were levels ahead of me and keeping up with latest technologies only pushed me to want to know more. It’s been that way since then as i’m still learning and growing, everyday."

"I believe can achieve whatever it is I set my mind to and that mantra has done a great deal in most of what i do today."

"The discipline naturally spilled over into my work and I had a productive start to my entirely separate and equally significant remote work journey. My boyfriend was with me for it all and offered his observations and insights about all the newness in our lives."

"There are many people who don’t believe that people like me exist."

"I poured these feelings which have been stewing slowly for years into the regimen of restraint I needed to lose ten pounds in 7 weeks. Even this I feared wouldn’t be enough for me to be a viable competitor, but it was all I could reasonably do."

"STEM is about changing lives and making a difference, and that’s what we want young women to see."

"No matter how many times I go through it, I can’t help but feel its intensity which then mellows into ambivalence, leaving me in a stupor of more emotions than I can count."

"Although it was my first time at this pageant, I grew up competing in various pageants in Colorado up until I left for college at 15. I had competed twice in Miss Massachusetts USA with disappointing results."

"We don’t just want women in tech – we want women leading tech."

"I grudgingly accepted my unspoken duty to my mom to do this thing that continues to be a significant part of my life for better or worse. She unpacked and furnished my house while I concentrated on adjusting to working remotely for my job I kept from Boston. I employed what felt like grueling levels of self-discipline to prepare for the pageant. After all, I had moved here to pursue business opportunities in pageantry, and wouldn’t the title of Miss Colorado USA be a great foot in the door?"

"There has been a change in the vision and recognition … all this clearly brings more responsibility."

"As a child I was the only one in the province of Brescia to play soccer. I always played with boys, I was the captain. I've always had great respect from them, sometimes they still write to me now complimenting me. I always felt free to do what I wanted and this was my great luck. I've always wanted to play soccer. When I got home I couldn't wait to go train. When I was 14 years old, a Verona executive called me, I told my parents that I didn't want to go play with the girls. They were the ones who told me that the train only passed once."