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Speakers and Instructors
GROWING UP IN AMERICA
MEHERET ENDESHAW
Meheret Endeshaw is a 2008 graduate in Psychology from Whitman College in Washington State. Her interest in heath education started at a young age. Throughout college she volunteered nationally and internationally at various organizations dedicated to improving then reproductive health of women and the lives of people living with HIV. In the summer of 2008, she went back to her homeland and launched her project.
GROWING UP IN AMERICA
MIKAEL "Mickey" GETAHUN
Mikael “Mickey” Getahun is an exemplary young man who is a rising sophomore at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Mickey is 20 years old and graduated from Boys’ Latin School of Maryland in 2009. He is majoring in Business Management and minor in Economics. In addition to his academic work he is also a Lineman on Saint Vincent College’s football team, Division III.
GROWING UP IN AMERICA
ESKINDER ZEWDU
Eskinder Zewdu is a senior Electrical and Computer Engineering major at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. He hails from Durham, North Carolina and is currently an intern at Education Services International, a startup career training company in the Raleigh-Durham area. He has also worked as a Globalization Intern at the SAS Institute, a privately held software company in Cary, NC.
WHAT IS GOOD ABOUT ETHIOPIA?
KELEMSIS GEDLU
Kelemsis Gedlu, a native of Ethiopia, has been a teacher by profession for over 15 years. His experience includes teaching English as a foreign language at high school level, as well as having taught university courses in logic, civics, psychology. Ato Kelemsis was most recently Dean of Students at the Pan Africa Distance Education Academy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is also a founder of Ararya Yemelkam Zega Keresa Mahiber, a local NGO working to disseminate good moral values and promote youths’ positive self perception in Ethiopian. Ato Kelemsis will also hold the Language Class for Adult and Youth.
LIVING ON THE FAULT LINE, WHERE RACE AND FAMILY MEET
BEVERLY N. CLARKE, MSW, LCSW-C, LICSW
BEVERLY N. CLARKE, MSW, LCSW-C, LICSW is the Director of Project Wait No Longer: Permanency for Foster Youth, a Barker initiative that seeks to find permanent homes for children currently in the public foster care system. She is responsible for the Project’s overall administration, including recruitment, training, outreach and matching. Beverly has 13 years of experience as a social worker and clinician, with many of those years focusing on children and families.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
DR. BIZUNESH WUBIE
Dr. Bizunesh Wubie is currently an associate professor of early childhood education at Marshall University Graduate School of Education and Professional Development, South Charleston, West Virginia, U.S.A. She earned her first degree in Ethiopia at Addis Ababa University, and was trained as an early childhood educator at Froebel College, Copenhagen, Denmark, and at Maria Montessori International Organization, London, England. For over 20 years, she held various early childhood education related positions in the Ministry of Education and in the former National Children’s Commission of Ethiopia.
W.I.S.E. UP!
One of the biggest challenges for children and teens who were adopted is to respond to questions and statements about adoption that are based on misperceptions and misunderstandings. Kids need tools to choose how to handle the numerous and varied situations they will face on their own. The W.I.S.E. Up!sm program empowers kids to handle both expected and unexpected situations.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
ANTENEH ROBA, M.D.
It all started with a fur ball called Nikita, a 9-pound dog, a Maltese, who came into my life in 1999.The strong bond I formed with this little innocent creature and the lessons of unconditional love, loyalty, patience, and commitment I learned from his presence in my life have led me down a path of reverence for all life and an intense commitment.
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