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Aisha Addo on the TechTO stage

Aisha Addo

Founder, Power to Girls Foundation

MarketplaceTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2019

Aisha Addo founded Power to Girls, the Toronto non-profit mentoring Black and marginalised girls, and DriveHER, a ride-hailing service driven by women for women in the GTA. She demoed DriveHER at TechTO in January 2019, pitching it as both a safety product and a way into an industry where drivers are overwhelmingly men.

On the TechTO stage ×1

TECHTO10:10

Demo of the Month: DriveHER Transportation Inc.

TechTO · January 2019
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In their words

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TechTO, Jan 2019 · watch at 09:10 ↗
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Around the web ×1

Interview
10 Questions with Aisha Addo, Founder of DriveHER and Power to Girls FoundationSee Girl Work
2017

Quick answers

What is DriveHER?

A Greater Toronto Area ride-hailing service where women drive women, founded by Aisha Addo to address safety and to open driving work to women in a male-dominated industry.

What is the Power to Girls Foundation?

The Toronto non-profit Addo founded to give young Black and marginalised girls the mentors and role models she says were missing when she was growing up.

What did she present at TechTO?

DriveHER, as the January 2019 Demo of the Month.

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