Published June 10, 2025
By : Staff Writer
The Bloom Africa, based in Lagos, Nigeria, is an organization dedicated to empowering women and girls to create meaningful change through education.
During Women's History Month, they featured Kimberly Bryant in their 2025 Bloom for Good Changemakers list, which celebrates women at the forefront of creating solutions, catalyzing change in their communities, and leading social impact.
Bloom for Good Changemakers is a platform to amplify women addressing today’s most pressing challenges.
Bryant is committed to reshaping the landscape of innovation and entrepreneurship.
As the founder and CEO of ASCEND Ventures and the Black Innovation Lab, she is focused on creating equitable pathways for economic mobility and fostering generational wealth.
Bryant is best known as the founder of Black Girls CODE, which has introduced over 100,000 girls to computer science and technology, inspiring a new generation in STEM fields.
In this book, she explores the intersections of race, gender, leadership, and power, providing a thought-provoking blueprint for achieving systemic equity in technology and beyond.
Currently, her efforts are focused on expanding access to capital, networks, and infrastructure for tech entrepreneurs in Memphis and the U.S. South, ensuring that innovation ecosystems in historically underrepresented regions can thrive.
Her transformative work has earned her recognition from the White House as a "Champion of Change for Tech Inclusion," and she has been featured in notable publications such as Forbes, Business Insider, and The Wall Street Journal.
Through ASCEND Ventures and the Black Innovation Lab, Bryant is advancing a vision for impact-driven innovation—one that equips founders from historically marginalized communities with the necessary tools, capital, and support to thrive and ascend.
