It gets better:
Aya was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to Sudanese parents. Her family migrated to the United States in 1999 to escape political and economic turmoil at home.
Inspired by youth-led protest movements in the US and abroad, Aya spent two summers curating technologies for activists during the Arab-Spring protests as a Google intern. She helped to launch the Speak2Tweet product in 2012, which allowed protesters across Sudan and Ethiopia to tweet using their analog phones despite sporadic Internet connectivity.
Thanks for that clarification and all-around good sleuthing, as the Truth Revolt article indicated the questioner was a “he.”
So now we know the truth: black, Muslim and female.
Hitting that big trifecta of identify politics is what Charlie Sheen would call “winning!”