Salma Ellakany is a master’s degree holder in Urban Development from TU Berlin. Her thesis was on social enterprises and collaborative local participation for the development of marginalized communities in Egypt. Currrently, Ellakany is the project manager of VeryNile’s up-cycling workshop that employs the marginalized women of Qursaya island located in Giza, Egypt. She also works as a freelancer and part-time employee in the fields of user experience design and organization development following her experience in RiseUp, a platform for entrepreneurship in the MENA region as its Chief Experience Officer. Furthermore, she has previously studied architecture engineering at the American University in Cairo, with minors in community development and organizing, film and digital media.
