From Zambia To Harvard: Meet The ‘Mentee-Turned-Mentor’ Who Inspired Her Country’s First Robotics Team At 22

Harvard; one of the world’s most renowned Ivy League Schools is known to be the breeding ground for some of the world’s brightest minds, and Sela Kasepa – a 21-year-old Zambian student at the time – waltzed her way into the institution with head held high and shoulders very likely keeping up with the pace back in 2016.

Clad in baggy pants, a sweatshirt that is possibly two sizes above what should be her perfect fit, and straddling along with a backpack strapped right behind her, she could pass for any of the many freshmen who seem to have known they were headed for Harvard since their days in middle school.

But that’s not exactly the case for Sela. Unlike those who seem to have had it all figured out from the off, the Zambian was stuck in some kind of career-mulling limbo just months before she walked into those gigantic lecture halls as a bona fide student of the institution.

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