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TECHBBQ 2026: Emerging from Agency!

Date: August 26 – 27, 2026
Location: Center Blvd. 5, 2300 København

Join ProWoc at TECHBBQ 2026: Emerging from Agency 🚀

We’re proud to mark our third year as a Community Partner at this two-day event, bringing together founders, investors, and changemakers to explore what it means to lead with agency in a fast-changing tech landscape. As a ProWoc member, you can grab your ticket at 25% off — a great chance to expand your network while representing our community. Don’t miss out — secure your discounted spot today!

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INTRODUCTION TO COCOA DREAMS (A KENYAN FILM ) & INVITATION TO SCREENING IN COPENHAGEN

Screening: Friday, August 28, 2026

Location:
Cafebiografen Vester Vov Vov
Absalonsgade 5
1658 Kobenhavn V.

Cocoa Dreams is a film drama set in Muhoroni Kenya. It follows the story of Jaber a nuclear physicist who returns home after her grandmother’s death & discovers she is the sole custodian of the family’s sugar farm. As she attempts to transform it into a cocoa farm, her vision collides with unresolved family tensions, forcing her to confront what it truly means to inherit both land and legacy. The press kit is attached.

The film had a soft launch in Kenya, performed very well and completed a second theatrical run. Additionally, the film is scheduled for a global tour in the diaspora at the end of summer.

We have engaged meaningfully with audiences regarding Gender Equality, land inheritance, environment, tradition versus inheritance, etc.

I will be doing a screening in Copenhagen at Vester Vov vov cafe and bio on Friday August 28th, this will be the second time I screen a film in Copenhagen, following the screening of my first feature film at the Verdenskulturcentret in 2016.

FACTS ABOUT COCOA DREAMS.

1. The story is loosely inspired by Kenyan women physicists in Vienna

2. The government of Kenya has a cocoa planting initiative in Kenya

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JINNA’S BIO

Jinna Mutune Odede is a renowned International Filmmaker ( Producer, Director and Writer ). She is also a cultural enteprenuer who mastered the tool of story telling to share a different story of Africa through films, docu-dramas, digital campaigns & theatre for nearly two decades.Her renowned films include *Leo*, which was screened in 16 global cities and recently Cocoa dreams targeting a Global audience

She is the founder of her own production company, Pegg Entertainment, which is based in Nairobi, Kenya with Investors from the U.S & Africa & has created content that has been acquired by international brands such as Amazon VOD platform ,Canon ,Emirates, SouthAfrican Airlines, Gathr (American Theatre box Office). She has also produced informercials for global brands like Siemens, Afdb bank, Global peace Foundation.Her work has been shown case in local And international Platforms such Unsecl Paris, Yale, Berlin Uninvesity , USC Carlifornia etc .

ProWoc is Recipient of the Blaze Inclusion Award in Denmark and the Nordics

August, 30, 2022

We are so very thrilled that ProWoc is the winner of the Blaze Inclusion Award in Denmark and the Nordics. The award in the Catalyst category is given by the Diversify Collective from Norway and recognizes work done by an organisation or individual within DEIB. It is awarded to “an organisation that works to externally advance equality and equity on gender, race, ethnicity, disability inclusion, sexual orientation, and/or religion within society. A catalyst for change.” The organizations or individuals are nominated and then selected by voting across the Nordic region. The National Award was received in June 2022 and the Regional/Nordic award in August 2022.

We would like to thank all those who voted for us and have supported us along the way. Looking back, we can see the impact that we have had.

We catalyzed an increased focus on intersectional and ethnic diversity in Denmark

Djøfbladet: “Hey vi er lige her”
Børsen: “Vi skal simpelthen tale hojere og vaere bedre end vores kollegaer for bare at blive anset som ligevaerdige”
Børsen: “Toppen hos de storste virksomheder er hvid”
Berlingske: “Det danske mangfoldigheden-dilemma “

Børsen article | 5 Feb 2021:

ProWoc was featured in a cover feature by Børsen. The article is based on the interviews with ProWoc’s Selim Ablo-Nielsen, Phaedria Marie St Hilaire, Caroline Onyango-Dyregaard, and Divya Rao. The feature covered the increased focus on Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) in workplaces in Denmark, with organisations such as ProWoc working on helping companies bridge the gap in talent requirements and addressing unconscious biases at the workplace. From the origins of ProWoc, the feature also covered the highs and lows of being a professional woman of colour in Denmark, and how the programmes of ProWoc are meant to upscale the skill sets among ProWoc’s members by tailored programmes, such as the Mentoring programme and various Career Development Masterclasses.

ProWoc Featured in Djøfbladet | 26 January 2021:

We are excited to share a very special feature on ProWoc done by Djøfbladet now available online (in danish)! The article highlights the need for inclusion in professional spheres, a reporting from one of our events – Exclusive Conversations with Maria Pejter – and, first-hand accounts from our founding members – Selim Ablo-Nielsen and Phaedria Marie St. Hilaire.

TheLocal DK article | 8 March 2020:

ProWoc was featured in TheLocal Denmark’s International women’s day special. The Local is an English-language news portal. Founders, Selim Ablo-Nielsen and Phaedria Marie St. Hilaire spoke about the motivations and reasons for the founding of ProWoc, the unique needs of and situations faced by women of colour in professional workspaces, besides adding how career development programmes offered by ProWoc are helping bridge the gap.