Doreen Kessy is a Tanzanian entrepreneur and education champion. She is the former Chief Business Officer and Chief Operations Officer at
Ubongo Learning
Ubongo is a social enterprise based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that creates edutainment and educational children's television series in Africa. They produce two shows: ''Ubongo Kids'', for 7–12 year olds, and ''Akili and Me'', for 3–6 year ol ...
Ltd, Africa's leading children's edutainment and media company.
Kessy played a critical role in building Ubongo to help kids learn and love learning through mass media technologies such as TV, Radio and mobile phone. Over the year, she led Ubongo's operations most importantly it's commercial strategy, market expansion efforts across Africa, and language adaption and content distribution.
It is estimated that over 30 million family households in 41 countries in Africa watch and learn from Ubongo cartoons every week.
Education and career
Kessy received a master's degree in Business Administration and a bachelor's degree in International Business and Economics from Liberty University in Virginia. Prior to Ubongo, Kessy worked with a variety of organizations including International Justice Mission, Wells Fargo and Smile Africa, and she designed poverty relief programs implemented in Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Activism
Ubongo teaches math and science through animated stories and songs. Kessy also provides the English voice of one of the characters in the Ubongo animated material, a monkey named Ngedere.
Awards
On 10 October 2018, Kessy was among eight innovators who were awarded with
African Union
The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September 1999, calling for the establishment of the African Union. The b ...
Education Innovation Prizes. The Innovating in Education Africa Expo 2018 took place in Dakar, Senegal.
See also
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Irene Tarimo
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Mary Mgonja
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Joyce Msuya
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Frannie Leautier
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Women
* Frannie Boyd (1867–1909), American writer and teacher
* Frannie Crouse (born 19 ...
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Elizabeth Mrema
References
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21st-century Tanzanian businesspeople
Tanzanian women
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Kilimanjaro Region
Tanzanian women in business