- Aboyeji, IyinoluwaCo-founded Andela (2014) and Flutterwave (2016), two of the small number of African tech companies to reach “unicorn” billion-dollar valuations, then founded Future Africa, a venture platform that has backed more than 100 African startups1991-present
- Aina, JackieBuilt one of YouTube's most influential beauty channels while stationed as a U.S. Army reservist, then used her platform to force major cosmetics brands including Too Faced to expand foundation shade ranges for darker skin tones1987-present
- Ajayi Jones, LuvvieBuilt AwesomelyLuvvie.com, launched in 2006, into one of the internet's most influential culture-commentary blogs, growing it into a four-time New York Times bestselling book career and a TED Talk viewed more than 9 million times1985-present
- Benjamin, RuhaCoined the concept of the “New Jim Code” in her 2019 book Race After Technology, a framework for understanding how supposedly neutral algorithms and AI systems encode and amplify racial bias1978-present
- Brown, TabithaBuilt a struggling-actress side gig into one of TikTok's biggest crossover careers, becoming an Emmy-winning host and “America's Mom” after a viral 2017 video review of a vegan sandwich1979-present
- Brownlee, MarquesBuilt MKBHD into the most influential technology review channel on YouTube, with over 20 million subscribers, setting industry-wide standards for how consumer electronics are evaluated and presented online1993-present
- Burke, TaranaBegan using the phrase “Me Too” in 2006 to support survivors of sexual violence, a decade before it became the viral #MeToo hashtag that reshaped global conversations about sexual harassment and assault1973-present
- Cissé, MoustaphaFounded and led Google's first AI research center in Africa, in Accra, Ghana, from 2018 to 2022, then founded Kera Health, an AI-powered healthcare platform based in Senegalc. 1985-present
- Civil, KarenAn early hip-hop digital-media and marketing strategist, best known for creating and running Lil Wayne's fan-communication site (weezythanxyou.com) during his 2010 incarceration; later general manager/EVP at Young Money1984-present
- Colley, DeWayne "Kountry Wayne"Turned a failed rap career and a single October 2014 Facebook post into one of social media's most successful comedy operations, building recurring original characters across Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube into a Netflix, film, and publishing career1987-present
- Evans, AichaCEO of Zoox, Amazon's self-driving car subsidiary, whom she led through a $1.3 billion acquisition by Amazon in 2020 and to the September 2025 launch of its first public robotaxi service in Las Vegas1969-present
- Hill, JemeleBuilt a national platform combining sports journalism with outspoken political commentary, most notably a 2017 Twitter thread calling President Trump a “white supremacist” that triggered a White House response and reshaped debate over athletes' and journalists' use of social media1975-present
- Lame, KhabyBecame the most-followed creator on TikTok worldwide through silent comedic videos mocking overcomplicated “life hack” content, then sold the rights to his digital identity and likeness for nearly $1 billion in January 20262000-present
- Mawakana, TekedraCo-CEO of Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous-driving technology company, since April 2021, overseeing business strategy and commercial rollout; among the few Black women leading a major U.S. technology company1971-present
- McKelvey, Lenard "Charlamagne tha God"Built The Breakfast Club into the most influential syndicated hip-hop radio and video-podcast show in the country, then launched the Black Effect Podcast Network in 2020, one of the largest Black-owned podcast networks in media1978-present
- Mckesson, DeRayBecame one of the most recognized voices of the Black Lives Matter movement by documenting the 2014 Ferguson protests in real time on Twitter, then co-founded Campaign Zero, a data-driven policy platform for police reform1985-present
- Mohamed, ShakirCo-founded the Deep Learning Indaba in 2017, a grassroots organization that has grown into the largest pan-African AI research and community-building movement, while working as a senior AI research director at Google DeepMindc. 1983-present
- Noble, Safiya UmojaAuthored Algorithms of Oppression (2018), the foundational study documenting how search engines like Google encode and amplify racist and sexist bias, coining a framework for understanding search as a form of “technological redlining”c. 1973-present
- Rae, IssaCreated the YouTube web series “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl” in 2011 after networks wanted to make Black-led content “less black,” crowdfunding its second season herself before it led to HBO's “Insecure” and her own production studio1985-present
- Saint John, BozomaHeld chief marketing or brand officer roles at Apple Music, Uber, Endeavor, and Netflix — becoming Netflix's first Black C-level executive — and was named the world's most influential CMO by Forbes in 20211977-present
- Wasow, OmarCo-founded BlackPlanet in September 1999, one of the first true social networking sites — predating Friendster, MySpace, and Facebook by years — built specifically as a digital gathering space for Black internet users1970-present