Gheida Omar

Gheida Abdala Omar is a Kenyan STEM Education advocate, innovator, and founder of Girls I Save Africa (GiSave), a social youth-led organization empowering young people, especially girls, through STEM education, digital skills, and innovation. She is a recipient of the Presidential Innovation Award 2025, Young Scientists Kenya Winner (2021), Innovation for Social Change Award, and Pwani Women Golden Awards Rising Star (2023). In 2025, she was a Microsoft Imagine Cup Finalist and received the Global Internet Award at the World Internet Conference in China. In 2026, she was recognized with the Women in STEM Award Kenya and completed the U.S. State Department-supported Community Engagement Exchange Program at Arizona State University. She also was a Finalist in the EF Hult Prize 2026 in the UK . She also served as an ITU Generation Connect Youth Envoy, Ban Ki-moon Foundation Scholar, Mastercard Foundation Alumni Committee Lead, and IFRC Global Innovation Lead.