Marion Subah, 1983

Liberia

General Nursing

Catholic University

Marion trained in nursing at Cullingham University College in Liberia and worked in village clinics with infants and children. She came to the US to increase her skills so she could train rural health practitioners in child care and nutrition. She returned to Liberia in l983. She practiced nursing and midwifery for two years, then joined the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, then went to the Christian Health Association of Liberia to direct primary health care at 8 hospitals and 50 clinics. She evacuated early in the civil war; worked in a children's hospital and managed a large household of refugees and relatives. She returned to Monrovia in l992; works in an AIDS program, an immunization clinic, and training program for hospital workers.

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Nadu Tuakli,1984

Zimbabwe

MA, Public Health

Harvard University

Nadu trained in medicine in Zaire, practiced in Zimbabwe and became interested in public health. She studied maternal and child health at Harvard and planned to return to Zimbabwe to do primary health care in public health clinics. She returned to Zimbabwe for l8 months, was divorced, and returned to the US for a 3-year residency in family practice at the University of Michigan. She settled in Columbia, MD, where she has a family practice. She is now a permanent US resident.

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Frannie Humplick Leautier,1985

Tanzania

MS Civil Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Frannie is the only woman enrolled in civil engineering at the Dar Es Salaam Institute of Technology when she entered. She received a fellowship from MIT. She is interested in the benefits to women of improved infrastructure, and believed her achievement would attract other women to engineering. She received her PHD in 1991 from MIT, returned to Tanzania for a short period, then received faculty appointment at MIT. In 1992, she came to the World Bank, and works on infrastructure projects in LAC.

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Yeshi Wordoffa, 1986

Ethiopia

AA Nursing, Family Health

Utah State University

Yeshi trained as a nurse in Ethiopia; accompanied her husband to Utah State University and enrolled in a special program for wives of students from developing countries. She planned to do extension and training activities for women in non-profit organizations in Ethiopia. She returned to Ethiopia in l987; died in childbirth.

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Agnes Asekenye-Oonyu, 1987

Uganda

MA Public Administration

Sangamon State University

Bio coming soon.

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Lucy Kehinde, 1988

Nigeria

PhD candidate

Iowa State University

Lucy was Educated in science at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. She is an extension worker in a regional office of the national Department of Agriculture and Rural Development with responsibility for programs for women farmers. She was sent to the US by her government which supported her during her study for the MS. She enrolled in the PhD program and completed her work in 1993. Her family had joined her; she could not meet the cost of return transportation to Nigeria and became an intern to study the US agricultural extension service. She will return to Nigeria whenever funds become available.

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Ren Zhang, 1988

China

M.A. Education

University of Michigan

Ren was a teacher at Shanghai University when she was sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. She returned to Shanghai in l979 and became a lecturer at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics where she published research papers and textbooks. She came to the US for graduate work and was unable to return to China. She went to Toronto where she worked in a hotel chain. She became a Canadian citizen in 1992.

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Chandra Bhadra, 1989

Nepal

PhD Home Ec, Ag Ed

Oregon State University

Deeply committed to the well-being of families; Chandra planned to combine her interest in research with her interest in educating women at the grass roots about family management. Her dissertation analyzed farm household budgets in two regions of Nepal and identified policy implications of the findings. She returned to Nepal in l990 to join the faculty of a leading university in Nepal: Padma Panya Campus, Tribhuwan University, Katmandu. Her Ph.D. was incomplete in l995.

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Leocadie Nahishakiye, 1989

Burundi

PhD African Language/Literature

University of Wisconsin

Educated as a teacher, Leocadie was on the faculty of the University of Burundi and worked in village outreach to teach literacy to women. She developed teaching materials that built on the day-to-day experience of women. She was a member of a UNESCO-sponsored research team that prepared a linguistic atlas of Central Africa. She came to the US on study leave. In 1990 she returned to her university post and is interested in preparing educational materials to teach literacy to school dropouts.

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