Roya Mahboob

BuilderModern· Afghan

Afghan tech entrepreneur whose Women's Annex platform paid its unbanked women bloggers in bitcoin as early as 2013, when opening a bank account in Afghanistan typically required a male relative. Co-founder and CEO of the Digital Citizen Fund, which teaches digital and financial literacy to Afghan women and girls. Her Threads of Freedom project explains how bitcoin works through a culturally rooted graphic novel and learning app for people living under repression.