Rebecca Ryakitimbo is a thought leader at Core23lab and KsGEN working towards gender mainstreaming technology and STEM. She is also a Co-founder and technical director at W-power, a female led energy company in DRC seeking to solve clean energy challenges with women at the forefront. Up until recently she was a community engagement fellow at Mozilla, where she was working on establishing and supporting diverse Kiswahili language and tech communities towards building an open voice dataset in Kiswahili. She has served as part of several advisory boards such as the Lacuna funding climate and forestry technical advisory panel and the “are we together” research implemented by Pollicy.