Public Lecture on African Women in Agricultural Research and Development

November 7, 2019 | 13:30 h - 14:30 h

we would like to invite you to a public seminar with Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, Director of African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) and new Member of ZEF’s International Advisory Board on:

“African Women in Agricultural Research and Development“

Date: Thursday, November 7, 2019
Time: 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm in the ZEF right conference room (ground floor), Genscherallee 3, 53113 Bonn

Prior to joining AWARD, Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg founded and served as Executive Director of Akili Dada, an award-winning leadership incubator that invests in high-achieving young women from under-resourced families, who are passionate about driving change in their communities. Wanjiru also served as an assistant professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco and a lecturer in International Relations at Hekima College, a constituent college of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. Her academic research and teaching interests centered on African politics, gender, international relations, ethnicity, and democratization, and the role of technology in social activism.