Qyana M. Stewart is a tech, social, and edtech entrepreneur, social justice advocate, educator, speaker, and award-winning philanthropist with over 20 years of combined experience in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. By training, she is a certified software product and project manager and is passionate about developing technologies that solve complex social problems in our world. Stewart serves as the CEO & principal consultant of GlobalForce Tech Consulting, LLC, a technology and software development company, and president of GlobalForce For Girls, Inc., a 501(c)(3) education technology nonprofit organization founded during the pandemic.

Passionate about higher education and the advancement of Black women in STEM, innovation, and entrepreneurship, she plays active roles in the higher education ecosystem. Stewart is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the University of Maryland, College Park’s UM Ventures program and is active in the National Science Foundation I-Corps network, where she is a mentor and instructor for the Mid-Atlantic I-Corps Hub, and serves as a technology industry mentor for national I-Corps Teams.

Stewart holds a Master of Science in Information Technology and a Graduate Certificate in Project Management from the University of Maryland Global Campus. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Howard University, where she is currently working toward her doctorate in the Higher Education Leadership & Policy Studies (HELPS) Ph.D. program. Stewart also serves as a graduate research assistant in HU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 2022, she was the senior teaching fellow for the Leadership Academy, a STEM program in partnership with the Women in Public Policy Program at The Harvard Kennedy School – Harvard University and Institute of Diversity Sciences at The University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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