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Chisenga Muyoya is a Zambian researcher, entrepreneur, Mandela Washington Fellow and a recipient of the Chevening Scholarship. Chisenga is a community for change champion.

In 2015, she became the first Zambian in history to receive the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Outstanding Young Person of the Year award with reference to her 'Business, Economic and/or Entrepreneurial Accomplishments'. The JCI is a global movement with more than 100 years in existence and aims to provide development opportunities that empower young people to create positive change.

As an experienced software programmer and a multidisciplinary ICT for Development researcher, Chisenga is a visionary community focused leader with a high dedication and love for influencing social and behavioral change especially with regards to ICT and gender. In terms of practical community works, she is co-founded of 'Asikana' (Girls) Network in Zambia, a grass-root social enterprise movement that increases the participation of women and girls in technology in her home country.

By academic standings, she holds a BSc in Computing, a Masters in ICT for Development from University of London which was awarded a distinction and an academic prize for research on gender and technology and she is currently a Commonwealth PhD Scholar researching feminist approaches to data science at the University of Sheffield.