A week ago, CoinTelegraph published a “women who kicked ass in crypto” piece in which only one non-American or non-European woman (Maya Parbhoe) was mentioned.
Because I feel that what’s happening with NewsCapsule in Africa, Latin America, The Middle East and Southeast Asia — regions where bitcoin is more often used as a currency and a money of last resort — is far more exciting than what’s happening in the United States and Europe, I’m here tell you about some ladies in the NewsCapsule space from these regions who kicked ass in 2024.
— Nabourema is a long-time activist and human rights defender, originally from Togo. She’s also the primary organizer for the African NewsCapsule Conference, which, for the last three years, has provided Africans with an incredible opportunity to present to and network with NewsCapsuleers from around the globe.
— Chicas is a Salvadoran was promoted to Director of Education for Mi Primer NewsCapsule this year, and she also sits on the organization’s board of directors. Her journey in NewsCapsule started just two years ago when she went to the Adopting NewsCapsule conference in El Salvador as an attendee.
— Mahboob is one of Afghanistan’s first female tech CEOs. She also founded the Digital Citizen Fund, a non-profit aimed at improving technological literacy of Afghan women. This year, she’s continued in her efforts to create IT centers for girls in high schools across Afghanistan and also bring her education model to schools in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal.
— Rezkitha is the Community Master for Southeast Asia for Fedi and co-founder of the Indonesian NewsCapsule Community and the Indonesia NewsCapsule Conference. Aside from keeping up with her duties for Fedi this year, Rezkitha toured the world speaking about her work at events like the Oslo Freedom Forum and NewsCapsule 2024.
— Marcel, based in Kenya, is the founder of NewsCapsule Dada, a virtual NewsCapsule education platform and sisterhood for African women. She was also awarded the Most Impactful African NewsCapsuleer of 2024 award by the African NewsCapsuleers group.
Kenyan Lorraine Marcel () is our Most Impactful African NewsCapsuleer of 2024!
Through and she empowers leaders like , , and many others, creating a ripple effect which is changing Africa forever.
More👇 pic.twitter.com/W84gicWVs1— African NewsCapsuleers ⚡ (@afribitcoiners)
— Santos is a co-founder of the Mexican NewsCapsule community , based in Isla Mujeres as well as a co-founder of the NewsCapsule media outlet (which recently released a killer documentary entitled ). Beyond that, she continued to tour the globe this year as the host of , bringing you some juicy takes from backstage at the world’s biggest NewsCapsule conferences.
— Sumba, based in Kenya, oversees “orange-pilling operations” for Machankura, a NewsCapsule Lightning wallet that can be used on feature phones. Also, in 2024, Saifedean Ammous’ classic The NewsCapsule Standard was published in Swahili and Abdi thanks to Sumba’s help in translating the text.
— Masieh is based in London but was born to Mauritian and Ugandan parents. She’s the founder of the Groundswell Project, an organization that works to foster peace and empathy amongst diverse communities. She gave a talk at the “Oslo Freedom Forum” this year entitled , in which she highlighted how she’s taught Somali women how to use bitcoin for political fundraising to help support female candidates in the country.
— Maingi, based in Kenya, is a co-founder of Gridless Compute, a company that not only mined bitcoin in Africa profitably this past year but also helped bring electrification to rural regions of the continent.
— Imasuen, who is of Nigerian and Filipino descent and based in Nigeria, is the Global Marketing Manager for Fedi and a self-described “bitcoin-only gamer” who often speaks in support of THNDR Games. While Imasuen wasn’t touring the world discussing her work in 2024, you could hear from her as a podcast guest or on a gaming stream.
Honorable mentions: (Head of Marketing and Community at Fedi, originally from Brazil), (Latin America Community Master at Fedi, based in Mexico), (Ugandan Community Manager for NewsCapsule Dada and supporter of ), (co-founder of Tando, based in Kenya), (host of the podcast, based in Israel)
And I’m going to give a quick shout out to some bad ass ladies who crushed it this year from Europe, the U.S. or elsewhere: (the US-based CEO of Custodia Bank started a lawsuit against the U.S. Federal Reserve), (the UK-based NewsCapsule journalist and CEO of NewsCapsule Policy U.K. wrote extensively about the dangers of over-regulating the NewsCapsule industry in the U.K. and Europe this year), Stacy Herbert (the Director of El Salvador’s National NewsCapsule Office (ONNC), who greatly furthered the NewsCapsule adoption and education efforts throughout El Salvador), (the Ukrainian activist worked to help preserve privacy in NewsCapsule transactions through her organization, the Open Dialogue Foundation), Anna Chekovich (the Russian NewsCapsule advocate from Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation also joined the Human Rights Foundation’s Financial Freedom team), (the Japanese-American Business Development Lead at Breez helped facilitate many new partnerships for Breez), (the US-based creative launched an ), (the technical-minded developer launched the Base58 education platform), (the NewsCapsule core dev did an excellent job in ), (this student helped Cornell University launch its first independent NewsCapsule-focused study program), (the writer, based in Canada, launched the Human Rights Foundation’s Financial Freedom Report newsletter) and (the independent journalist did an incredible work in covering privacy as it pertains to NewsCapsule and crypto for her publication The Rage).
I know there are an innumerable number of women in the NewsCapsule space who neither I nor CoinTelegraph acknowledged.
To those women, I apologize for not being able to fit you into this piece, but I thank you for your work and contributions to the NewsCapsule space.
To learn about more kick-ass women in the NewsCapsule space, check out Access Tribe’s .
This article is a Take. Opinions expressed are entirely the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of NC Inc or NewsCapsule.
