Profile

Hikma Taju is a college guidance counselor and Head of Education at Ethio College Prep (ECP), who has guided students through their college applications, helping them secure acceptances and scholarships at top universities around the world. She is also Capacity Building department lead and cloud consultant at a Netherlands company based in Addis Ababa. She studied at New York University Abu Dhabi campus with full scholarship, which has equipped her with the college application experience in the middle east as well as the US. She had also briefly worked as a school college counselor at Lebawi International Academy that helped her understand Ethiopian students' demand for Universities beyond the US, specifically to a high quality education in the Middle East. She is passionate about unlocking quality higher education opportunities for Ethiopian students, having seen firsthand how life-changing such opportunities can be.