President Biden on Monday introduced the nominations of Monde Muyangwa and Carol Moseley Braun to the board of United States African Growth Basis (USADF), the impartial U.S. Authorities company that gives grants of as much as $250,000 to African enterprises and social entrepreneurs.
Born and raised in Zambia, Dr. Muyangwa at the moment serves because the assistant administrator within the Bureau for Africa at the USA Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID), a task she has held since September 2022.
Carol Moseley Braun, the primary Black girl to function U.S. Senator, will turn out to be chair of the USADF board taking up from Obama appointee Jack Leslie, the White Home introduced.
The appointments come quickly after the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit the president hosted in Washington in December, the place he pledged America’s dedication of greater than $55 billion to assist 50 nations fight meals insecurity and the local weather change components that result in it.
Previous to her position at USAID, Dr. Muyangwa was director of the Africa Program on the Woodrow Wilson Worldwide Heart for Students, the place the White Home says she “led applications and analysis designed to investigate and provide sensible, actionable choices for addressing a few of Africa’s most important, present, and over-the-horizon points.”
For 11 years beginning 2002, Dr. Muyangwa was the dean of lecturers on the Nationwide Protection College’s Africa Heart for Strategic Research (ACSS).
Dr. Muyangwa is a Rhodes scholar and acquired a doctoral diploma in worldwide relations, a bachelor’s diploma in politics, philosophy and economics, each from the College of Oxford in England. She additionally has a bachelor’s in public administration and economics from the College of Zambia.
Carol Moseley Braun made historical past in 1993 when she was sworn in as the primary Black girl U.S. Senator representing Illinois, and solely the second Black senator for the reason that Reconstruction Period, in keeping with congressional data.
After her time within the Senate, Braun went on to be the USA ambassador to New Zealand, following an appointment by President Clinton. She serves on a number of public service boards and commissions, together with the DuSable Museum of African American Historical past and has been awarded a number of honorary levels, the White Home stated.
Creator Tom Gitaa Born and raised in Kenya’s coastal metropolis of Mombasa, Tom is the Founder, President and Writer of Mshale. Because the founder, he did quite a lot of the reporting through the humble beginnings of the newspaper. Whereas he nonetheless does the occasional reporting, he now concentrates on the publishing facet of the information operation. Tom was additionally the unique host of Speaking Drum, the signature present affairs present on the African Broadcasting Community (ABN-America), which was out there nationwide in the USA through the Dishnetwork satellite tv for pc service. On the present, he interviewed Nobel laureates reminiscent of 2004 Nobel Peace prize winner, Professor Wangari Maathai, the primary girl from Africa to win the peace prize and heads of states such because the president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh at State Home, Banjul. Tom has served and chaired varied boards together with World Minnesota (previously Minnesota Worldwide Heart), the sixth largest World Affairs Council in the USA. He has beforehand served as President of the Board of Administrators of Books for Africa, the biggest shipper of donated books to Africa. He additionally serves on the boards of New Imaginative and prescient Basis and the Minnesota Multicultural Media Consortium. Tom additionally served two phrases on the board of the United Nations Affiliation. He retired from working full marathons after turning 50 and now solely focuses on half marathons.
About Tom Gitaa Born and raised in Kenya’s coastal metropolis of Mombasa, Tom is the Founder, President and Writer of Mshale. Because the founder, he did quite a lot of the reporting through the humble beginnings of the newspaper. Whereas he nonetheless does the occasional reporting, he now concentrates on the publishing facet of the information operation. Tom was additionally the unique host of Speaking Drum, the signature present affairs present on the African Broadcasting Community (ABN-America), which was out there nationwide in the USA through the Dishnetwork satellite tv for pc service. On the present, he interviewed Nobel laureates reminiscent of 2004 Nobel Peace prize winner, Professor Wangari Maathai, the primary girl from Africa to win the peace prize and heads of states such because the president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh at State Home, Banjul. Tom has served and chaired varied boards together with World Minnesota (previously Minnesota Worldwide Heart), the sixth largest World Affairs Council in the USA. He has beforehand served as President of the Board of Administrators of Books for Africa, the biggest shipper of donated books to Africa. He additionally serves on the boards of New Imaginative and prescient Basis and the Minnesota Multicultural Media Consortium. Tom additionally served two phrases on the board of the United Nations Affiliation. He retired from working full marathons after turning 50 and now solely focuses on half marathons.
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