Social Innovation in Action 2025

Social Entrepreneurs 2025 These are founders or chief executive officers of for-profit, hybrid or non-profit organizations (social enterprises) with the explicit mission of solving a social or environmental problem to benefit society. Organization: CareMessage Headquarters: USA Impact Region: North America Sector: Digital communications for healthcare SDGs: 1, 3 and 10Organization: Sommalife Headquarters: Ghana Impact Region: Sub Saharan Africa Sector: Women farmers SDGs: 1, 2, 5 and 13 Organization: Safe Motherhood Alliance Headquarters: Zambia Impact Region: Sub-Saharan Africa Sector: Maternal healthcare SDGs: 3, 5 and 8Corral is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of CareMessage, where she spearheads strategy and vision. As the subject-matter expert on the product, industry and customers, she identifies the problems to be solved, transforms them into core objectives and aligns internal teams towards achieving them. Her work is informed by her experience of growing up in a low- income immigrant family. Outside of her work at CareMessage, she is an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the tech industry, and collects and publishes data on Latina tech founders. She was on the 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 list for healthcare and graduated with a BSc in Product Design Engineering from Stanford University.As a nine-year-old, Gyisun would hustle through town, balancing water on her head, to sell at the local market. Witnessing women farmers walk 30 km to sell their wares for little to no profit, she made it her mission to work for rural development and women’s empowerment in her community, in Ghana and throughout rural Africa. After studying Integrated Community Development and Development Communication, she worked at GIZ and Agriculture and Finance Consultants (AFC), gaining skills in community development, agricultural consulting, administration and leadership. In 2020, she started Sommalife, which helps tens of thousands of women farmers improve their earnings and become climate resilient. Mwanza’s own childbirth challenges inspired her to create Safe Motherhood Alliance, a social enterprise with a vision to ensure safe childbirth and prevent deadly infections among the 20 million pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa who lack access to maternal healthcare. With a background in executive roles at multinational companies, she pioneers solutions that blend profit with purpose. Mwanza was the winner of Pitch@Palace Africa in 2019, which recognizes and accelerates the work of entrepreneurs. She was a Mandela Washington Fellow in 2017, an Obama Leaders: Africa Fellow and Ashoka Fellow in 2019, and an Echoing Green Fellow in 2020.Cecilia CorralMawuse Christina Gyisun Muzalema Mwanza Credit: Sommalife, GhanaCredit: CareMessage, USA Schwab Foundation 2025 Awardees and Impact Report 13 Schwab Foundation 2025 Awardees and Impact Report 12