Updated: Stamped Speaker Series - Fridays in July

Sarah Miller
Join us on Fridays as guest presenters help us dive deeper into various topics from our All School Read - Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism & You. Reading the book is not necessary to attend, please join these engaging presentations! They will be a half-hour well spent!
Fridays in July, 6:30-7:00pm

Zoom Link:
https://zoom.us/j/98894544082?pwd=a0M0NUlrMjkzaHFFd0dxSUdFazU4Zz09

Meeting ID: 988 9454 4082
 
Password: 2YWQpz
 
Week One (Friday, July 3rd): Elizabeth Mensah-Bowler (bio below) talks about the lasting effects of colonization on certain countries in Africa. She will specifically be talking about the colonizing strategy of dividing communities to maintain ruling power and how this continues to impact the people living in Africa. 
 
Bio: Elizabeth Mensah was born in Canada but spent her formative years in Ghana. She is the daughter of a black Ghanaian father and white Canadian mother, who run an award winning NGO that has focused on holistic grassroots development and peace-building for the past 30 years. Growing up around this work inspired her studies and career.

Elizabeth did her undergraduate and masters degrees on development and politics in Africa. She moved to the United States to do her PhD in International Relations with a focus on why we need to study Africa differently in order to understand its conflicts. Currently, Elizabeth works at the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) office of the World Bank Group (WBG). In this role, Elizabeth is actively engaged with communities from a policy perspective, working to provide independent advice with the goal of improving the environmental and social outcomes of World Bank projects around the world. Elizabeth was also recently made the Queen Mother of her tribe, which is a role inherited through family lineage and one that plays an important function in traditional leadership in Ghana.
 
Elizabeth lives in Washington, DC with her husband Justin where she - in her not so spare time - engages in losing battles of will with her two year old son Ezra and the slugs in her garden. 
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