Who We Are: Ijeoma Terese Ihenachor

Winner of the 2006 Anita Borg Institute Change Agent Award – sponsored by Google

Ijeoma Terese Ihenachor is a professional engineer with the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. An executive member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and active in numerous engineering organizations, she has served as a member of the governing council of a technical school and has been a leader of that country’s “Take a Daughter to Work” program, which annually offers cash awards to top math and physics students at the primary and secondary levels. Ihenachor earned a degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Anambra State University of Technology.