Month: November 2018

Throughout the world, women are moving into positions of power, from Michelle Bachelet, the first female president of Chile in 2006; to Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the first female prime minister of Iceland appointed in 2009; Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh as Sierra Leone’s first female Chief Justice in 2008; and Pratibha Devisingh Patil, the twelfth president of India, […]

I could have gone to a number of colleges in my neighborhood, but going abroad to seek education meant engaging with other societies, and I aimed to soak in every experience I could, as I did in my travels as a kid with my family, not knowing the impact it would have on my development […]