Goats and Soda

editor's note

Dear readers,

I don't mean to humble brag, but I am on a first name basis with one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2025 (according to the new list from Time magazine).

It's not Serena Williams or Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum -- both of whom are on the list.

It's Angeline Murimirwa, who goes by "Angie."

Angie's story is remarkable. When she was a child growing up in Zimbabwe, her parents could barely afford to pay school fees. On days when an inspector would come to call out the names of kids who hadn't paid up -- and order them home -- her teachers would give her a cue. Don't you have to go the bathroom? And she'd hide out until the inspector had gone.

As CEO of the charity CAMFED, Angie presides over a program that has provided scholarships and other school expenses to millions of girls in Africa whose education might otherwise be thwarted -- and has an army of volunteer mentors to make sure that they thrive in class.

"I've come from hiding in the bathroom to being intimidating!" she teases about being called an "icon" by Time.

Read the interview -- and find out how her four kids and her mom reacted to her new stature. 


Marc Silver,
Editor, Goats and Soda

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