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Dr. Aklilu Habte
Dr. Aklilu Habte combines thirty-six years of academic, managerial, national and international civil service. From 1958 to 1974 he was the Haile Sellassie University in many capacities including as a president of the University. He joined and served UNICEF as Chief of Education Division and Special Advisor to the Executive Director of UNICEF (1990-1993). He was transferred to UNICEF from World Bank where he served from August 1977 - July 1986 as the Director of the Education and Training Department and as Special Advisor in Human Resources Development to the Vice President of the African region from 1987 to 1990. Dr. Aklilu also lectured on Ethiopians culture and current affairs in several states and he is an active member of the Diaspora community in the Washington, DC area. He has published several articles, monographs and reports of education and development
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Ezana Muluneh
Young Scholar Ezana Muluneh Azene has received many honors including Engineering Class of 1999 Valedictorian; Summa Cum Laude, Barry Goldwater Scholar, 1998-1999 Louisiana Board of Reagents Fellowship Recipient from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. Ezana, while he was a high school student, did study at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, on how to isolate and sequence DNA from Thiobacillus Ferroxidants bacteria as Human Genome Group Researcher. He graduated from high school as Valedictorian and University with as Summa Cum Laude, with a 4.0 GPA. He is accepted and offered a substantial scholarship to join the John Hopkins University in the fall of 1999 as a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering.
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Fikerte Gebre
W/t Fikerte Gebre was born in Zato, a village in South Western Ethiopia. From a family of 14, W/t Fikerte came to the United States in 1974 to get a college education. She eventually earned a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Labor Relations at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a second Master's Degree, in social work, at the University of California, Berkeley. In California, she organized the first multicultural, multilingual Ethiopian community resource center in Oakland, which she directed from 1983 to 1990. With the help from many Massachusetts residents, she launched her Siljo project in 1991. She raised funds by manufacturing and marketing Siljo to create the first water supply system in her drought-stricken hometown of Zato. Ms. Fikerete died at the age of 42 on June 9, 1998 in California. Sadly, we honor Fikerte Gebre posthumously.
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