Product manager and digital strategist Nafisa Rawji has a goal to make professional opportunity more accessible — and believes that tech is “one of the best conduits” to do so.
Rawji moved to the United States from Tanzania when she was 5 years old. When planning for her future as a young adult, she prioritized pursuing a sustainable career with the compensation that would allow her to live a comfortable life. Her high aptitude for academics as a marketing major at Temple University attracted recruitment from global consulting firm Deloitte. It wasn’t her passion, though.
“Minorities are often not taught to take risks in our careers and I’m the child of an immigrant,” she told Technical.ly. “The main things [I focused on] after school were career sustainability and compensation. But consulting wasn’t interesting or exciting.”
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