FOUNDER EVA BRAND

Innovators 2024 Award

From Bolivia, Alejandra decided to take on entrepreneurship in 2019 with the creation of Eva Brand, a fashion brand that stands out for its value in the industry and its focus on self-identification. Through its garments, Eva Brand seeks to help women heal their relationship with their bodies, using fashion as a powerful tool for personal transformation.

Eva Brand is dedicated to creating a more ethical and inclusive fashion industry. Its collections include sizes M to 3XL, breaking down barriers and promoting gender equality. The brand strives to weave a new story in fashion, where no woman feels discriminated against, rejected or judged because of her body. Furthermore, Eva Brand emphasises the importance of representation of all bodies, races and ethnicities within the industry. Eva Brand collaborates with Aloe DS 5 to strengthen their mission and vision. Together, they seek to break down existing barriers in fashion and raise awareness about the importance of inclusion and representation.

Alejandra aspires to be remembered as a woman who is able to create communities and empower the best in each of them, leaving a significant footprint in the fashion industry. Her goal is to reach the mind and soul of every woman, promoting personal empowerment through fashion. Naturally, she shares experiences and collaborates with other Innovators such as MIchelle Ortega of Dux Academy.

‘I would like to be remembered as a woman capable of creating communities and empowering the best in each one of them, leaving footprints within my industry and within my capabilities to reach the mind and soul of every woman’. Get to know our brand new Winn 2024 Innovator Award winner better.

From European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT)

Known in Ghana as the Maths Queen, Dr Angela Tabiri is the first African to win The Big Internet Math Off competition – quite an achievement for someone who had not initially planned to study mathematics. The 35-year-old Ghanaian “finds joy in solving puzzles and mathematical questions” and hopes her 2024 win will open up the world of mathematics to other African women – who have traditionally been discouraged from taking the subject. Sixteen mathematicians were invited to compete for the tongue-in-cheek title of “the world’s most interesting mathematician” – a public vote event started in 2018 by The Aperiodical blog.

The first winner was Dr Nira Chamberlain, the first black mathematician to be included in the British reference book Who’s Who and a vice-president of the professional body, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. During the event they all compete against each other – so two in each match – and then it goes to quarter-finals and semi-finals until the big match to decide who has explained their chosen mathematical concept in the most illuminating way.

Dr Tabiri’s passion is quantum, or non-commutative, algebra, which she researches at the Ghana branch of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Aims).

Aims started in South Africa and then expanded to Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon and Rwanda – to provide post-graduate training and research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Dr Tabiri is also the academic manager for the Girls in Mathematical Sciences Programme, a mentoring and support scheme for high or secondary school girls in Ghana. It was set up by Aims Ghana in 2020 to “ensure that we have a pipeline of young girls who will be leading in research and innovation in the mathematical sciences – in academia and also industry”.

A woman, military officer, commander of the Armed Forces, doctor in human rights, author of the novel ‘Be wicked, be brave’, expert in jihadist financing.

We can say that Inmaculada Antúnez, today’s protagonist in Mujeres Valientes, is one of the most respected voices in the field, as she is one of the people who knows the most about ‘financing international terrorism and its impact on security and defence’, as she titled her thesis, published just a few months ago.

Inmaculada Antúnez has been the only woman to hold the position of Head of Resources and Finance for the European Union Commission in Somalia.

What strikes us most about her professional and life trajectory is the perfect interweaving that has made her the woman she is. A knot that is impossible to separate and that has led to a book that has been a catharsis for her.

‘Sé malvada, sé valiente’, published by Editorial Media Luna, is the result of a total liberation because she has been able to overcome a part of her childhood to forge a professional path that has led her to discover the woman she has become and is.

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