Akinyi Williams is CEO of Hope for the Child Inc, a Minnesota non-profit she founded in 2007 whose mission is to provide access to education for the poor. She is Chief Education Of...view moreAkinyi Williams is CEO of Hope for the Child Inc, a Minnesota non-profit she founded in 2007 whose mission is to provide access to education for the poor. She is Chief Education Officer for a network of community schools in Kenya. Akinyi has an MBA from the University of Minnesota where she is faculty and serves on the advisory board of Carlson Global Institute. She has a M. Ed from Harvard University and runs a lending firm for alternative real estate financing in Minnesota where she lives with her husband and their two children.view less