Social Impact Lab 4/17: Yihemba Yikona

Join us for Social Impact Lab! Over lunch, we will hear from Yihemba Yikona '24 about Power Africa, a U.S. government-led partnership to increase energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Yihemba Yikona is a third-year joint MBA/MPP candidate at the Yale School of Management and the Jackson School of Global Affairs. After her first year at Jackson, Yihemba interned for a social enterprise startup in Mexico City developing a business model and organizational strategy to address urban poverty more effectively. The following summer, she interned at Boston Consulting Group in Washington, D.C.

Prior to Yale, Yihemba led communications at a girls’ education organization in Guatemala. She also worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for Power Africa, a U.S. government-led partnership that aims to double access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this role, her portfolio focused on improving the enabling environment for private sector investment in the African energy sector. Yihemba holds a bachelor's degree in politics and certificates in Latin American Studies and Spanish from Princeton University.

Lunch is served at 11:30am, session begins at 11:45am.

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