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Maya Okonkwo
Editor
Editor. Investigates federal supplier diversity programs, certification policy, and the gap between procurement promises and contract dollars actually awarded to diverse businesses.
Bio
About Maya ….
Maya Okonkwo is the Editor at SupplierDiversity.com. Her reporting focuses on the federal supplier diversity ecosystem — what the SBA's 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB, and SDVOSB programs say they do versus what the contract data actually shows. She also covers state-level certification policy, sub-contracting plan compliance, and the corporate accountability landscape (BDR, Inclusion Index, Fortune 500 supplier diversity disclosures).
Before joining SupplierDiversity.com she covered procurement policy and small-business contracting for trade publications and worked with diverse suppliers navigating the federal certification process firsthand.
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