Seyi Akiwowo
Seyi Akiwowo is a multi-award-winning founder and CEO of Glitch, a charity on a mission to end online abuse.
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Biography
Seyi Akiwowo is a keynote speaker, author, Founder and Chief Executive of Glitch - Europe’s leading not-for-profit on tech, harms and gender. Seyi’s trailblazing leadership and values to drive change is why Akiwowo is an multi-award winner, featured on the front page of Wired’s Global Changemakers, voted Digital Leader of the Year and one of Marie Claire Future Shapers. In Spring 2022 Seyi was offered an MBE but made the decision not to take it.
Seyi’s passion for making the world a safer place, especially for Black women started with being elected the youngest Black female Councillor in East London at the age of 23. Seyi is one of the very few Black women charity leaders in the UK and has grown her charity from scratch. Akiwowo has worked with companies like BT Sport and EE, brands, influencers, UK and international politicians. Seyi’s TedxLondon Talk ‘How to Fix the Glitch in our online communities’ has been featured by the likes of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Web Foundation. Seyi’s first book HOW TO STAY SAFE ONLINE has welcomed invites to speak at Ofcom, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Channel 4.
For the last 10 years Seyi has travelled the world as an international speaker, speaking about inclusive online and offline communities, her own inspiring leadership journey to Google’s Jigsaw in New York, the United Nations in Geneva, Future Tech Forum and Parliaments in the UK, Ghana and Uganda. Akiwowo has also delivered seminars at UAL and London School of Economics.
Alongside being appointed to the TikTok and Twitter’s European Trust and Safety Council, Seyi now sits on the Board of Multitudes Foundation to support changemakers across Europe to reimagine who holds political power.
Books
How To Stay Safe Online
Her first book, HOW TO STAY SAFE ONLINE, was published by Penguin in 2022.
'This book needed to be written and thankfully it finally has. Seyi's experience, and those of countless others, are full of valuable lessons for keeping us safe and empowered online' - Kajal Odedra, head of change.org