Vincent Dadzie is an educator and social entrepreneur with over 5 years of experience in teaching and leading programs. He completed his bachelor's degree in B.Ed. Accounting and Economics at the University of Cape Coast. He has also completed more than 15 certificated courses in various fields including Leadership, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Sustainable development goals, and Project management,  from various Universities around the world. In early 2020, he accomplished his studies at DePaul University as an International Baccalaureate (IB) certified Educator in both MYP and DP. He is currently pursuing his MBA in Entrepreneurship, Strategic Innovation, and Business Analytics at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. 

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After Vincent graduated with his first degree, He signed four years of fellowship journey with Lead for Ghana to extend educational opportunities to students in deprived schools in the Northern and Western parts of Ghana. During this fellowship, he founded two educative programs; “Motivation2Learn” and “Huracan FC Ghana”, both with the aim of reducing school dropouts among students in rural communities.

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He has served as the Country Lead and Academy Member at HundrED, where he sought and recommended local innovations from across Africa and recommended strategies of similar innovations and educational trends to local innovators for shaping and scaling up their ideas. He has also served at UNESCO APCEIU and GCED Global Youth Network as an Ambassador where he organized mini-workshops for teachers on how they can serve as ambassadors for integrating and promoting Global Citizenship among students in all schools’ classroom activities.

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Upon his continued service to the school communities and improving the lives of students, he was chosen as an Everyday Young Hero by Youth Service America (YSA). Lead for Ghana (LFG) also awarded him an Alumni Award as an Alumnus with the Most Entrepreneurial Spirit. In 2018, The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Teach for All invited him to participate in Youth leadership growth and professional development with Israel as a complex and motivating backdrop. He also participated in the 2019 UNESCO APCEIU the 5th Youth Leadership Workshop on Global Citizenship Education (GCED) in Seoul, the Republic of Korea to share his experiences, inspire other young leaders and learn.

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He believes that the future belongs to young people, and it is up to us to determine how we desire it to be.