Mariam Luyombo (formerly Dorothy Nanziri)[1] is a Ugandan educational entrepreneur and the director of Taibah Schools in Uganda[2][3] Mariam Luyombo attended Mount Saint Mary's College, Namagunga for high school.
[1] She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in education from Makerere University in Kampala in 1985 and 1997 and has also taken a number of courses in business in Uganda and the United States.
[6] In 2013, she was the executive director of Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association (UWEAL).
[5] Awards she has received include the first national Rotary Club enterprise award for young women entrepreneurs and New Vision in 1995,[7] the Namagunga Old Girls' Association award in 1998, and a Uganda Investment Auth[8]ority certificate of recognition for championing education change in Uganda in 2001.
[9] In 2014, she was one of the 20 recipients of Uganda's Golden Jubilee Medal[10][11] for her "contribution in the education area for Taibah Schools" and entrepreneurship.