After introducing the first few participants to the BarCamp Africa Silicon Valley yesterday, here are a few more of them:
Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg was born and raised in Kenya, and moved to the United States at the age of 14. After completing earning a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Whitman College she moved to the University of Minnesota, where she earned a Masters and a Ph.D degrees in Political Science. Currently she is an assistant professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco. Her research and teaching interests are at the intersection of African Politics, Women's Politics, Ethnic Politics, Political Economy, Human Rights, and Democratization.
Wanjiru is also the founder and executive director of Akili Dada, a non-Profit organization working to ensure that the next generation of Africa's leaders includes women from disadvantaged economic backgrounds.
Akili Dada currently works in Kenya offering competitive and comprehensive scholarships to bright girls from needy families while also connecting them to a network of professional women who serve as mentors.
-Find Akili Dada online at http://www.akilidada.org
Marsha has facilitated economic development in Africa since 1997, when she assisted a US corporation entering South Africa. She connects stakeholders in entrepreneurial ventures to build indigenous African industries. Her model relies on entrepreneurial African professionals who trained in the USA (the African diaspora).
She and her colleagues recently founded Africeuticals, Inc., a high growth business that strengthens Africa’s private health sector with certified human and veterinary products and services. Marsha's prior roles include include that of independent entrepreneur (1970’s), VP of Investments (1980’s), and Advisor to the CEO and Director of Corporate Communications at Pioneer. 
She also served as a Director of a medical center, managing a budget of $200 million/yr (1990–1997). Marsha has lived and worked internationally in Taiwan, Germany, Australia, Argentina, China and Africa. She has raised five children and a plethora of pets, and enjoys sailing, yoga and grandkids.
-Find Africeuticals online at http://www.africeuticals.com
Adrienne Warren is a graduate student studying International Health and Development at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. She began her work in Africa as a researcher in Mali and while in graduate school she met the founder and Executive Officer of Voices of Africa, where she's currently serving as the Chief Financial Officer. In January she's going to move to Kenya, where she'll be working towards building the organization's monitoring and evaluation plan. Adrienne says that she's looking forward to speaking with other BarCamp Africa attendees about information communication technology for development (ICT4D) as we Voices of Africa will be hosting an ICT4D conference at the Tiwi Beach Resort in Kenya in March 2009. She says, "I have much to learn and much to share".
Voices of Africa is a not-for-profit representing a global network of researchers, students, and Wanachi working together to create a database of sustainable development information. Simply put, they are working to help bridge the digital divide. They utilize Web 2.0 and open source software to bring a network of individuals scattered across 15 countries and 4 continents together with the single goal of providing individuals, community organizations, NGOs, governments, universities, and other institutions with a comprehensive database of information.
Currently, in Kenya Voices of Africa is assisting numerous people working to develop the ICT4D digital village project. They have established internet centers in three villages and are actively working to build new community partnerships and provide more people with access.
-Find Voices of Africa online at http://www.voicesofafrica.org
