The winding way here
JILLIAN ROBERTSON
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
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An early call to volunteering
- Nearly four years of weekly poverty-alleviation volunteering with the Open Table food pantry.
- Summer counselor at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts — a classroom volunteer helping young students in her community get involved in creativity and expand their artistic expression.
- Senior project: designed paint-by-number kits in support of Artists For Humanity’s Boston branch.
- Awarded the Harold Seligman Jr. Memorial Bowl — her school’s highest honor for commitment to community service.
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University of Chicago
- B.A. in Economics and Art History with a minor in Data Science; Dean’s List.
- Eckhart Consulting — consultant to Managing Director (President) of UChicago’s premier student consulting group, leading its Summer Social Impact Initiative.
- Moneythink mentor — weekly financial-literacy volunteering, putting her economics degree to work in Chicago high schools.
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Industry: data & innovation strategy
Data analytics at Sleep Number; growth & strategy innovation consulting at KPMG in New York — work spanning data engineering, business intelligence, and executive strategy for Fortune 100 clients.
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Master’s in Management & university teaching
- Chicago Booth Master’s in Management — arriving not to find a co-founder, but the next problem worth solving.
- University teaching alongside the degree: teaching assistant for UChicago data science courses and Booth’s Marketing Management.
MUYIWA OJO
NIGERIA
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Ekiti State University — B.Sc. Psychology
Public-health education, HIV/AIDS awareness, peer education, and community leadership — social impact with faces he knew.
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Frontline program leadership
Primary health educator with the Ministry of Health, Enugu; program officer coordinating community programs for traumatized wives and youth.
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Founded FSADI
The Food Scheme for African Development Initiative — hunger, poverty, education, and community development. Nation Builder Award, 2020 and 2021.
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FSADI becomes a U.S. 501(c)(3)
Programs reach thousands of women, children, and vulnerable people — and teach a hard lesson: doing meaningful work is not enough if donors cannot see it.
United Nations — CSW70
Delegate participation at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, United Nations Headquarters, New York.
University of Chicago — M.A.
Social Sector Leadership & Nonprofit Management, Crown Family School — carrying one question: how do you make generosity visible?
Two paths converge — Innovation Leadership
Professor James Janega’s Innovation Leadership course. An enrollment reshuffle lands them on the same six-person team. Muyiwa introduces NourishBridge; Jillian sees something larger. One private conversation later — “Do you want us to build this together?” “Yes.” — Afara is born.
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Afara Systems is registered
Illinois LLC, Chicago — the bridge gets a legal foundation.
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Building the bridge
- August 2026 — OGOGO.app and afarasystems.com are designed, built, and launched.
- September 2026 — OGOGO app development begins: verified projects, staged fund release, real-time documentation.
- October 2026 — first live projects slated: the pilot cohort of vetted nonprofits runs the transparency loop end to end.
THE REST OF THE STORY IS STILL BEING WRITTEN.