Divine Omozokpia is a cybersecurity and AI capacity building specialist whose work focuses on developing the skills, opportunities and institutional capacity needed to build a safer digital future.
Through her work at CyberSafe Foundation, she has helped design and lead initiatives that equip African women with practical cybersecurity skills, advanced technical training, and pathways into sustainable careers. This includes driving high-impact projects like CyberGirls, CyberGirls+, and the CyberSafe x SANS AI Security Fellowship Programmes. Her work spans cybersecurity and AI security workforce development, community digital safety, strategic partnerships and professional advancement, with a focus on ensuring that access to cybersecurity expertise translates into lasting individual and institutional capability.
Alongside her professional work, Divine researches human-centred cybersecurity capacity building for emerging economies. She is developing a framework for sustainable digital safety, exploring how programmes can move beyond short-term training to build lasting resilience that responds to the needs of people, communities, and institutions.
Building pathways for women in cybersecurity
During 2025 and 2026, Omozokpia’s influence has extended across several major development initiatives. She was selected as a 2025 Internet Society Early Career Fellow and used the programme to develop CyberSecure Communities, a grassroots digital-safety initiative focused on underserved communities in Nigeria.
The project trained more than 80 Digital Safety Champions to take practical cyber-hygiene knowledge back into their own communities, covering risks including scams, misinformation and unsafe online behaviour. She later presented the initiative during the Internet Society Early Career Fellowship Symposium, contributing to wider discussion about digital inclusion, internet governance and the need to adapt global security guidance to local realities.
Omozokpia was also selected as a 2025 Vital Voices Visionaries Fellow, recognising her leadership in creating inclusive pathways into cybersecurity. Her mentoring work has continued through initiatives including the Africa Center for Digital Transformation’s Women in Leadership Cybersecurity programme, delivered in partnership with the UNDP Digital Capacity Lab.
Extending opportunity into emerging security disciplines
In 2026, her work has continued to evolve alongside the changing cybersecurity landscape. CyberSafe Foundation, in partnership with SANS Institute, launched a fully funded AI Security Fellowship for experienced African women, providing advanced training and a pathway towards two GIAC certifications. The programme addresses a growing challenge: ensuring women already working in cybersecurity can progress into specialist areas such as AI security.
Alongside her programme leadership, Omozokpia continues to contribute to cybersecurity awareness and professional development through volunteering and advocacy, including work with Cyber Champions and CyberFirst South West.
Her impact can be seen in the women trained, communities reached and pathways created. More broadly, she promotes a model of cybersecurity capacity building that combines technical skills, mentorship, accessibility and long-term progression, helping expand who can enter the profession, who can advance within it and who is equipped to shape its future.
