Robyn Scott
December 5th, 2011 by Sandbox
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Social Entrepreneur OneLeap 30 London, UK |
A social entrepreneur and author, Robyn is Co-Founder of OneLeap, an online platform that democratizes access to attention by providing “special delivery for messages”. Users pay a fee to get their short pitch directly in front of decision-makers. The fee, which goes to the recipient’s favorite charity, shows the sender is serious. The message is guaranteed to be read, or the fee refunded. Robyn is also Co-Founder of Mothers for All, Botswana’s only national non-profit. Backed by Barclays Bank and the EU and featured in Oprah’s magazine, Mothers for All teaches entrepreneurship skills to AIDS orphan caregivers. Her first book, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle, is a bestselling memoir about growing up in Botswana against the AIDS epidemic. She is currently writing her second book, Big Like Coca-Cola, the true story of a group of maximum security prisoners who adopted AIDS orphans. She is an Ambassador for the Access to Medicine Index, an adviser to several international development charities and social enterprises and a mentor at Skoll’s Emerge Social Venture Lab. She has worked for BP, the FT and Investec. A Gates Cambridge Scholar, she has a BSc Bioinformatics and an MPhil Bioscience Enterprise Distinction. She is a fellow of the RSA.
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