Uchenna Moka-Solana

Uchenna Moka-Solana is the Chief Technology Officer at Color Of Change. She is responsible for building the technology department and developing a clear, strategic vision for the organization’s technology landscape. She leads a team of cross-functional technologists while driving change processes in conjunction with other leaders at the organization. She joins Color Of Change with a dozen years’ experience in technology and management consulting, and organizational transformation — and is passionate about leveraging her experience to catalyze change.

Before joining Color Of Change, she worked with federal, state, and local government agencies to build products, fix technical problems, and improve how the US government serves the public through technology. She was the first African-American woman to serve as acting Executive Director of 18F, a civic digital services consultancy. Prior to that, she worked for global software company ThoughtWorks, helping to launch their Pan Africa operations in South Africa and Uganda. While living in South Africa, she also started the first BlackGirlsCODE chapter in Africa along with a free software development initiative.

Uchenna is a graduate in the field of Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University. She has also done extensive diabetes research at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine as she aimed to fight first-world diseases that affected Black and African communities.