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Emilia Naambo Shikeenga (born 20 August 1990) is a Namibian academic and businesswoman.

A runner up for Queens Young Leaders 2018 as well as an alumni of the YALI Regional Leadership Centre cohort 10. She is also both the Co-Lead of the Google’s Developers Group (GDG) Windhoek and the Facebook Developer Circle, and founding member of the Internet Society of Namibia (ISOC) in which she currently serves as the Treasurer, a Django Girls Windhoek Organizing Member and a member of the Namibia Business Innovation Institute (NBII) Developer’s Circle. She has published several papers in internationally recognised technological ACM HCI conferences. She was a member of the team ,'Be wise' that competed and successfully  won the Women's Hackathon in 2015.

Early Life and education
Shikeenga was born on 20 August 1990 in Windhoek where she attended Khomas High School. She holds a Bachelor of Information Technology in Software Engineering and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Computer Science degree both from the Namibia University of Science and Technology

Career
Emilia presently works as a Business Intelligence Analyst in the Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse division at Telecom Namibia.

Emilia has played active roles in teaching a wide range of technologies to marginalised groups, including women, giving free android training and has travelled elsewhere in Africa in technology and social-upliftment roles. She is passionate about Computer Science and helping people and she is actively involved in computing/developer related community projects of which some of them include organizing Google I/O 2017, 2016 Windhoek event and DevFest 2016 Windhoek events, Organized Namibia Women in Computing Conference 2018, 2017 & 2016,  organized the GBV Hackathon and Open/Big Data Hackathons 2018, 2017, 2016 & 2015 to name but a few.

Citations: http://www.observer.com.na/index.php/sports/item/4871-group-develops-app-for-teenagers http://thepatriot.com.na/index.php/2018/03/02/9775/ http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/s/Shikeenga:Emilia https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2998609 ISBN: 978-1-4503-4830-0 doi>10.1145/2998581.2998609