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Magatte Wade

Magatte Wade is a serial entrepreneur building companies featuring Senegalese recipes and ingredients, updated for the US market. Her current company, SkinIsSkin, also manufactures products in Senegal. She is Director of the Atlas Network's Center for African Prosperity and has spoken at MIT, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Berkeley, TED Global, etc. and is featured in "Made in Mekhe" and "Poverty, Inc."

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