Media Coverage

 Wiki Pages:

• Wikipedia page – Oreoluwa Lesi
• ICANN Wiki page – Oreoluwa Somolu Lesi

Online Interviews:

• ACT Foundation ACTPod interview on “Nurturing the next generation of female tech experts” (2024)
• Donate.ng interview on “Empowering women in tech” (2024)
• STEM-METS Instagram Live on “Girls and Tech” (June 2021)
• “3rd Day to Christmas” McBridge Consult Interview (Dec 2020)
• “Starting a career in ICT in the Nonprofit Sector” with McBridge Consult (Oct 2020)
• Instagram Live Chat with FortefiedHQ (Oct 2020)
• UnMask by She-EO Podcast – Episode 6 (Aug 2020)

TV & Video Coverage:

• AfricaX Podcast “Nurturing Female Technology Entrepreneurs, Leaders and Creators with W.TEC Founder Oreoluwa Somolu” (Dec 2021)
• Google for Africa spotlight on W.TEC (Oct 2021)
• Voice of America “Africa 54” (YouTube) & on VoA website (Mar 2021)
• BBC Africa & Channels TV “Check Me Out” (Mar 2021)
• BBC News Africa – Coverage of W.TEC (Apr 2020)
• “Gender Disparity: Using S.T.E.M to Fight Inequality” – GIST Nigeria on Channels TV (Mar. 2020)
• “EQUALS in Tech Award 2019: Oreoluwa Lesi, W.TEC, Nigeria– Winner of Skills Category (Nov. 2019)
• EQUALS in Tech Award Acceptance Speech (Nov. 2019)
• She Leads Africa & SheaMoisture Campaign (Jun. 2019)
• Her Network Woman of the Year in Technology– Award Speech (Dec. 2018)
• “How to Get More Women into Development of Technology”, Channels TV Tech Trends (Aug. 2018)
• “Young People Are More Open to Use of Digital Devices”, EmagineTV (Mar. 2017)
• “Technology and Life”, Seriously Speaking with Adesuwa on Channels TV (Jul. 2015)
• “Channels Bookclub: Focus on the State of Bookshops in Nigeria” – Channels TV (Nov. 2014)
• Close Flow TV Show – Part 1, Nigerian Television Network (NTA) 10 (Sep. 2013)
• Close Flow TV Show – Part 2, Nigerian Television Network (NTA) 10 (Sep. 2013)
• Woodrow Wilson Center Interview – Part 1 (Jun. 2013)
• Woodrow Wilson Center Interview – Part 2 (Jun. 2013)
• Woodrow Wilson Center Interview – Part 3 (Jun. 2013)

Print Coverage:

• • “Impactful Women’s Series: Why we are upskilling women in tech” – Vanguard Newspaper (Mar. 2024)
  • “CSACEFA advocates for girls’ empowerment in STEM” – This Day Newspaper (Oct. 2023)
  • “Oreoluwa Lesi: Women drop out of tech jobs within the first ten years” – The Nation Newspaper (Jan. 2022)
  • “Technology is a Gender-Balanced Profession” Enterprise CEO.ng  (Mar. 2021)
  • “W.TEC was Set up to Close the Gender Gap in the Technology Ecosystem..” Discovery of the Week – The Bbbuzz (Jul. 2020)
  • “Conversations with Oreoluwa Lesi of W.TEC” – Glossy White Pumps: Navigating Leadership as an African Woman (Jun. 2020)
  • #WomenInTech – How $5,000 Funding Spurred Oreoluwa Lesi to Empower More than 10,000 Girls with Digital Skills (Apr. 2020)
  • “My Life In Tech: Oreoluwa Somolu-Lesi’s Decade and More of Balancing Tech’s Gender Scale”, TechCabal (May 2019)
  • “How to Educate Special Needs Children”, The Nation Newspaper (May 2019)
  • “Oreoluwa Lesi on How She Found W.TEC”, innovbtiv (Apr. 2019)
  • Genevieve Magazine Women Appreciation Day (Jan. 2018)
  • “How Oreoluwa Somolu Lesi of W.TEC is Empowering Women & Girls with Tech”| #BellaNaijaWCW (Nov. 2017)
  • Africa On the Rise Interview (Apr. 2016)
  • TechHer Spotlight(Jan. 2016)
  • “A Trailblazer for Women in Technology”, Fab Afrique magazine (Jul. 2015)
  • “Let Your Work Speak for You”, The Nation on Sunday (Mar. 2015)
  • “Closing the Gender Gap”, GE Reports (Sep. 2014)
  • “Raising Digital Women, the W.TEC Way”, TechCabal (Jul. 2014)
  • “An Amazon Using IT to Empower Women”, The Nation (Jun. 2013)
  • “Real Heroes”, True Love magazine (2009)