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From growing up as a child of immigrants in the United States, to her father’s disadvantaged childhood and her sister’s physical disability – Lila Ibrahim’s personal experiences have helped her understand the power of technology to level the playing field for differently privileged groups.
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“I grew up as the eldest daughter to parents who had immigrated to the United States. Growing up, I was the dark kid in my school, the foreigner. English was my second language… My entire childhood, I was always an outsider,” said Ibrahim.
Her dad grew up in a Lebanese orphanage. His future should have been over, she said. Instead, he overcame a disadvantaged childhood “to design heart pacemakers that saved millions of lives because he had an engineering degree”.
“That’s what technology has always meant to me,” said the 55-year-old tech leader. “The reason I went into engineering is, I felt, how can I use technology to solve problems?”
