For my fourth interview in the Interview Series, I interviewed Emi Harry. This is the first part of three of our conversation. Emi Harry is the co-founder of Naina Tech Inc., a New York-based tech startup that is poised to launch an adaptive learning platform for early childhood education in the U.S. and Nigeria’s underserved communities. As a highly skilled data scientist and social entrepreneur, Harry is also on the board of Alula Learning, an EdTech learning management systems provider, and Manna, a health and nutrition company, both in Nigeria. She has had a diverse professional experience, having worked in the food, oil and gas, entertainment, and fashion industries in Nigeria, as well as the entertainment, non-profit, and education industries in the United States. Currently, she balances her time between working in tech, creative writing, and fashion designing.
Her educational qualifications include B.S. in Mathematics, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Master’s in Social Entrepreneurship, Hult International Business School, San Francisco; M.Sc. in Data Analytics/Science, Fordham University, New York, and is on track to earn a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Pace University New York.
During this first part of our conversation, we discussed the data science company she founded and how she learned data science.
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