What do Sarah Drinkwater, the ex-head of Google’s London startup space Campus, and Nafisa Bakkar, the cofounder of Amaliah, a platform for Muslim women, have in common? They’re both members of the advisory committee of YSYS, a London-based startup community founded by Deborah Okenla in 2017.
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