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Berook Alemayehu
Berook is an honor roll student who served as the student liaison of the National Honors Society. He attended Charles Herbert Flowers High School and was in the Science and Technology Program. Berook is multitalented to say the least. He was a soccer player, a member of the high school choir and gospel choir, who did not only have several solo performances, but has been awarded the Outstanding Lead Singer Award. Berook also speaks Amharic and Spanish.
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Dr. Catherine Hamlin
A Native of Australia, Dr. Catherine Hamlin together with her late husband, Dr. Reginald Hamlin is a Co-Founder of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in 1974. Since that time, the hospital has served over 25 thousand women, and has become a major teaching institution for surgeons all over Ethiopia and the developing world. A new operating theater, additional wards and hostel space were completed in 1999, and a rural village was recently completed which is allowing women whose fistulas cannot be repaired to live out their lives in self-sufficiency and dignity. ...more
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Dr. Heran Sereke-Brhan
Dr. Sereke-Brhan, a rising star in our community, received her Ph.D. in African History from Michigan State University. Dr. Sereke-Brhan, known to her friends as just Heran, is the first Ethiopian woman to receive a Ph.D. in History. Heran is being recognized by SEED not only for her academic excellence, sterling and exemplary character, but also for her tireless efforts to promote a positive image of Ethiopia and Ethiopians. ...more
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Dr. Ingida Asfaw
Dr. Ingida Asfaw is a nationally and internationally renowned Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon currently on staff at the Detroit Medical Center Hospitals. He also serves as the Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at Sinai-Grace Hospital, a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Wayne State University, Chairman of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Trinity Health-St. Joseph Mercy Oakland and Chief Executive Officer of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeons of Michigan. ...more
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Dr. Skunder Boghossian
Born in Addis Ababa in 1937, professor Boghossian was awarded an "Imperial Scholarship" and a second prize at the Jubilee Anniversary Celebration of Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie I. At the age of 17 he was sent to study at London's St. Martin's School of Art. He extended his stay for another nine years during which he moved to Paris and became a student and teacher at that city's Académie de la Grande Chaumière and at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts. He was the first Ethiopian painter whose work was purchased by the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris in 1963. ...more
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Dr. Taye Woldesemayate
Dr. Taye Woldesemayate received his Ph.D. in political science from University of Missouri-Columbia in 1988. His terminal degree could have allowed him to live a comfortable life any where in the West. He gave up that opportunity for the love of his people and his motherland Ethiopia. In 1989, Dr. Taye took a post as Assistant Professor in Political Science and International Relations at Addis Ababa University ...more
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Elizabeth Hines
Elizabeth Hines was not only a member of the basketball, soccer, cross country, softball, and tennis sports teams, but also took advanced courses across the board like AP Literature, Honors Alegbra 2 and Geometry, AP Government, Honors Chemistry, and AP Government among others. She also plays the piano and violin.
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ENAHPA
Ethiopian North American Health Professional Association [ENAHPA] is an organization founded in November 1999. Its members are comprised of Medical Professionals from the United States, Canada and Ethiopia. http://www.enahpa.org/ SEED is honoring ENAHPA for its many accomplishments and promises, given its relatively young existence. Among ENAHPA’s many accomplishments, its recent Medical/ Surgical mission to Ethiopia from September 27th to October 13th stands out. ...more
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Hellina Hailu
Hellina Hailu is a young lady whose accomplishments speak for themselves. Hellina is an honor roll student who has utilized her high school career to help others. In addition to her active involvement in student government, bible club, and the multicultural student alliance at St. John’s College High School, Hellina has made a special effort to give back to the Ethiopian Community. She initiated and organized her own Ethiopian Youth Group called Ethiopian Youth Heritage Link, which tries to create a link between American culture and Ethiopian heritage. Her future plans for the organization involve creating a mentoring program and helping Ethiopian youth in Ethiopia. ...more
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Karezhe Mersha
Karezhe Mersha is a lady whose academic accomplishments are exemplary. Having attended Long Reach High School with a GPA that would have been 4.6 if the courses she took were regular classes, Karezhe also received recognition for best performance in science, history, business, and Spanish as early as ninth grade. And her scores on the SAT I and SAT II tests were in the 96th percentile. ...more
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Mahlet Dori Girma
Mahlet attended Annandale High School and was in the all-honors, international baccalaureate Program. Her academic record of courses is quite amazing. As early as ninth grade she was already taking courses like Honors English, Honors Biology, Hon ors Geometry, and French 2. Mahlet is a leader by every measure. She was the President of the Black Cultural Awareness Student Association, Vice President and Secretary of the Symphonic Orchestra, Treasurer of Student Government, and one of four student representatives to the Fairfax County School Board. ...more
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