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Sonia Nigam

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As the co-founder and CEO of Change, Sonia is passionate about fully integrating social impact into the digital world, especially into ecommerce settings. She studied Computer Science and Business at Northwestern University and previously engineered frictionless payments at Braintree and Venmo.

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