Emily Cunningham

Emily is the co-founder and COO of MoringaConnect, a social enterprise leveraging the incredible moringa tree to end poverty and malnutrition. Through their award-winning clean beauty brand, True Moringa, and their superfood brand Minga Foods, MoringaConnect links 1600 small farming families in Ghana to the conscious consumers of natural products worldwide, providing agricultural support and farmer training, increasing farmer incomes by 10x, and cold-pressing their oils in-country to create jobs locally. To date, they have planted 250,000 trees and are in the process of creating the largest organic certified moringa farm in Africa. They successfully crowdfunded $25,000 in 2013 to begin their journey. Follow them on instagram.