Moosajee is a director at Pegasys, a development consultancy firm that deals with natural resource management, public transport, climate change, water resources and infrastructure financing. Moosajee earned a degree in civil engineering from the University of Cape Town and a master’s from the University of Stuttgart in Germany.
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In addition to establishing herself as a mentor for female African engineers, Moosajee also founded JourneyMap, a company that offers executive leadership coaching and development programs to other companies such as graduate training. She also started NaadiyaM, an evening attire manufacturing company.
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Some of the goals of WomenEng include attracting and retaining more females to the engineering industry, teaching skills and leadership development for female engineers and teaching innovative problem solving. One of the ways WomenEng is achieving their goals is through GirlEng, which seeks out high-potential math and science students and mentors them on a path to study engineering in universities or colleges.
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Young women who went through the GirlEng mentoring program can go into the WomenEng fellowship during their final years studying engineering at a university. The WomenEng fellowship involves the Technical Innovation Challenge which offers a first chance for students to work on real-world problems. Sixty girls are chosen to be in the fellowship and are organized into groups where they learn how to not only come up with innovative solutions to engineering issues but also to pitch an idea and work on presentation skills. Corporations from across Africa often attend the final days of the challenge to recruit young women.
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WomenEng has recruited over 100 volunteers to lead its various workshops and training classes. In its nine-plus years of being active, the group has helped over 2,000 women per year. The group has largely been based in South Africa but in 2014 began rolling out programs in Kenya.
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Networking workshops are an additional benefit of the WomenEng program. Many women, even once they have found jobs in the engineering industry, do not feel confident enough to network with men, which make up over 90 percent of their industry. WomenEng holds workshops where women can feel safe practicing their networking skills before taking them into the real world.
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Moosajee has won the Most Influential Woman of the Year award from CEO Magazine in the category of engineering, as well as the Frost & Sullivan Visionary Leadership Award and the Top 100 Brightest Young Minds in South Africa Award. Mosajee speaks English, Afrikaans, German and Turkish, which she says helps her communicate with as many aspiring young women as possible.
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Moosajee is a fellow of the YouthAction Net global leadership program–an initiative that works to expand the impact of youth-led social ventures. She is also an African Leadership Network Fellow. The young entrepreneur is also a board director of the International Youth Foundation in Baltimore, which offers leadership and entrepreneurship training for young people around the globe.
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