Tracey Pettengill Turner (born c. 1971), a serial social entrepreneur, is the founder of Copia Global, an ecommerce service for middle-low income Africans based in Nairobi, Kenya.
[4] In 1998 a Stanford Business School classmate of Turner's founded 4charity.com, an online marketplace established for college student textbook purchases, initially allowing donations to the Special Olympics.
She then became Chief Finance Officer of KickStart, a non-profit organization that designs and sells products focused on poverty alleviation.
[6] Graduating in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in engineering and economics from Dartmouth College, Pettengill Turner initially worked for the US Committee for Refugees in Washington DC and Sudan[5] and Mercer Management Consulting before she completed a Master of Business Administration from Stanford Business School[5][6] in 1998.
After business school Turner moved to Dhaka, Bangladesh to work for the Grameen Bank, a pioneering microfinance organization.