A native of Burkina Faso, Rassidatou Konate attended the African Leadership Academy (ALA), a pan-African entrepreneurial and leadership institution based in South Africa. Upon graduation from ALA in 2015, she joined the University of California, Berkeley as a MasterCard Foundation Scholar where she is now a rising sophomore studying Public Health. Rassidatou is passionate about health, entrepreneurship and arts. She is on a mission to make youth entrepreneurship the heart of community development and to improve Maternal and Child Health through merging arts, entrepreneurship and health in Burkina Faso and beyond.