Mrs Stephanie Akinwoya

Stephanie is an educator, STEM enthusiast, and advocate for providing access to quality education for children who would have otherwise been excluded from learning. She is especially passionate about promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education amongst girls and has partnered with international bodies such as the WAAW foundation to provide training support and mentorship to this effect. Stephanie is the project convener of Girls-pro-stem, an initiative aimed at inspiring and igniting a passion for STEM-oriented courses amongst girls in public secondary schools.

Stephanie was nominated as one of the top fifty teachers in the world in the 2023 Global teachers prize organized by the Varkey foundation and UNESCO  and a 2022-2023 Atlantic fellow for social and economic equity. She is a 2022 fellow of the prestigious Fulbright Teacher Excellence Achievement Program, and was selected as one of the top 60 teachers in the 2021 International Cambridge dedicated teachers award, and also one of the top ten educators representing Nigeria in the 2021 Wakelet Community Impact award for her work in promoting Stem education for girls as well as providing access to mental health educational resources for teens and young adults through her Safe Space project. She is passionate about working with the government and non-governmental organizations in education to ensure that every child in Nigeria irrespective of status or location has access to quality education.

She is a graduate of physics from Imo State University, has a postgraduate diploma in education from Usman Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Nigeria and is a recipient of a Commonwealth master's scholarship in 2019, which funded her master's education in Online and distance education from the Open University UK. She is currently a PhD student at the Open university