Mariama Kabia is an entrepreneur driven by social impact. Mariama is Digital Equity Accelerator Lead, Social Impact at HP. In this role, she collaborates with partners such as Aspen Digital and MIT Solve to support HP’s commitment to accelerate digital equity for 150 million people by 2030.

 
Mariama comes to HP as Co-founder of Memunatu Magazine—a nonprofit social enterprise committed to empowering teenage girls in Africa and the diaspora. Memunatu Magazine has been recognized as a Halcyon Incubator Fellowship Winner, Wharton Africa Business Forum Finalist, Harvard Innovation Lab team, Dell Social Innovation Semifinalist Fellowship Winner, and CGI U Commitment to Action. In 2016, Mariama was selected as a GES+ delegate and one of 12 early-stage entrepreneurs in the social impact category to pitch at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Silicon Valley. In 2015, Washington Life Magazine named Mariama one of its “Tech 25” in a special innovators and disruptors issue.
 
Mariama has spoken about social impact, entrepreneurship, and African innovation at the Woodrow Wilson Center, US Department of State, White House, Vital Voices, Yale University, Harvard Business School, and more.
 
Previously, she led the youth engagement portfolio as Manager, Innovation and Learning at Women Deliver, a global advocacy organization, and served as a Gender Innovation Consultant for the United Nations Population Fund. In 2019, Mariama became an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship.
 
Mariama is an alum of Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.) and the University of Pennsylvania (B.A.) cum laude in International Relations with a minor in French. Mariama is based in New York, NY.