Atuwatse Okorodudu is an entrepreneur focused on expanding access to entrepreneurship globally. He graduated from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a minor in Computer Science. He began his career in public policy on Capitol Hill and at the U.S. Department of Commerce. At Apple, he helped scale AI/ML education and entrepreneurship initiatives across institutions nationwide. He also worked as an AI/ML engineer and researcher at the University of Chicago Data Science Institute and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana.

Atuwatse is an Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholar, Milken Institute Fellow, and Harvard SVMP Scholar. He founded Founders on the Yard, the nation’s first student-led accelerator bringing HBCU founders together with Silicon Valley investors and industry leaders. His long-term goal is to build infrastructure that connects entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world.