Luminary Week 1 - IWD Project

Introduction It's the month of March, and the month of International Women's day, and at the Rise Academy frontend track, we've been split across 3 teams to work on impactful projects solving real problems women in society - Nigeria and Africa more specifically - face today. One of these projects which I was assigned to and would be writing about is Luminary. Luminary is a community-powered directory and news platform celebrating women who are driving change across all fields — business, science, arts, activism, sport, technology, agriculture, education, and more. It allows anyone to nominate or self-submit, is searchable by name and field, and surfaces daily and weekly news of women making impact globally. My Team and I would be working over the next few weeks to bring Luminary to life, for this week, we created the Landing page. I would be writing about how it went, my role in the project, and the lessons I learned so far. Project Setup Phase The setup phase for the project started o