Speaker

Bruktawit Tigabu

Co-founder, CEO and Creative Director, Management and Production, Whiz Kids Workshop

Ethiopia

Ms. Tigabu, determined to improve conditions of Ethiopian children and deliver education on a mass scale, established Whiz Kids Workshop in 2005 (WKW) with her husband and began broadcasting Tsehai Loves Learning , Ethiopia’s first preschool educational program. Winner of multiple international awards including Prix Jeunesse International, Japan Prize, Rolex Young Laureate and others, her latest brainchild Tibeb Girls , is an animation series about three Ethiopian adolescent superhero girls.