Nelly Cheboi: Kenyan techpreneur named CNN Hero of 2022

Nelly Cheboi after being named CNN Hero of The Year. [Source: CNN]

Kenya's Nelly Cheboi has won this year's CNN Hero of the Year, an award that recognizes individuals who have an impact on society.

In 2019, Cheboi quit a lucrative software engineering job in Chicago to create computer labs for Kenyan schoolchildren.