Adrian Chimboza grew up in Harare, Zimbabwe, and learned something early that he has never been able to shake: talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not. That simple truth is what Kids Without Borders is built on.
It started taking shape in 2023, when he went back home to Zimbabwe and built Project JEKA alongside Pora Health, a Zimbabwean nonprofit tackling health inequality and poverty in disadvantaged communities. The program met youth unemployment and substance abuse head on, pairing drug-abuse awareness with training in coding and entrepreneurship. He watched people his age find direction where there had been none. And he kept thinking: if this works at eighteen, what could it do at eight? Kids Without Borders is his attempt to answer that question.
Adrian has had the chance to move through a lot of different rooms. He studied Economics and African and African American Studies at Dartmouth. He spent a summer as an investment banking analyst at Bank of America, working on fintech deals and learning how capital moves. He taught sixth grade math at Success Academy and found it just as demanding, in completely different ways. At The Michael Duke Foundation, which funds the education of children who have lost a parent, he built out the donor outreach operation and grew their prospect database by 525%.
All of it has shaped how he thinks about change and what it actually takes to make it stick.
He is also the co-founder and CEO of Doctorly, building practice management software for medical providers across emerging markets. Different problem, same instinct: the systems that shape people’s lives should actually work for them, wherever they are.
Along the way he has been named a Kathryn Davis 100 Projects for Peace Scholar, one student selected per year at Dartmouth and awarded $10,000 to carry out a social impact project anywhere in the world. A PIMCO Future Leaders Scholar, one of 50 Black and Hispanic/Latinx students chosen nationally for their commitment to a career in finance. A Magnuson Center Founder Grant recipient, one of 6 out of 27 Dartmouth-founded startups selected for funding for Kids Without Borders. He entered Dartmouth on the Greenebaum Scholarship, awarded to a single high-achieving freshman, and was named a Sigma Phi Epsilon Balanced Man Scholar among 25 outstanding campus leaders. His thinking was further sharpened through early leadership programs at McKinsey and Bain.
He describes himself simply: exploring, always.