More About Me

Committed to Excellence

My journey starts in Kampala, where I was born. In the beautiful lash green East African country called, Uganda, famed as “Pearl of Africa,” by a renown world leader called Winston Churchill.

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Born to a mother who was an elementary teacher and a principal. Later, she founded an early childhood vocational institute, and trained early childhood educators. That is the beginning of my love for education.

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As young learner in Uganda, I traversed across the country on geography field study trips to the national parks and game reserves that Uganda is gifted by nature. Later, crossing borders into our East African neighbors of Kenya, Tanzania and Congo to visit families, study tours and tourism.

Following high school, I taught English to Bangladesh immigrant women in Uganda, so they could participate in family businesses alongside their husbands. It is there that my world opened up wider, and gave me a craving for international learning, teaching, community and youth leader.

My dedication to experiential learning, cultural exchanges and student activism took me to live, work and visit in  South Africa, countries in West Africa, and across the seas and the oceans into Europe. As a young scholar, I also found myself in Asia, North and South America, before finally settling down in the United States, my current home. My #bucketlist still has Fiji, and Tuvalu.

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Although, I have primarily lived on the U.S. east coast, from New England to Georgia, I have been an active and curious participant in pertinent national conversations on enhancing public education, and the changing classroom demographics across the nation.  As a globalist! I am very attuned to the melting pot of ideas through recognition of the diversity of cultural traditions, customs, ways of life and innovations. As a mother, I appreciate even more the intellectual contributions of young minds, shaped by the worlds around them, such as their teachers. 

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The opportunity to coalesce all my experiences as a mother, a worker on international human rights, refugee legal protection, and research, teaching, and grantmaking for higher education through professional teaching is an exciting opportunity.  In fact, staying actively connected to my community, exemplified through volunteer leadership with the Boy Scouts of America, and ESU students groups has allowed me connections relating the purpose and promises of education. I can't wait!