• S1E3: Dr. Ramatu Bangura

  • May 5 2021
  • Length: 57 mins
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S1E3: Dr. Ramatu Bangura

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  • Dr. Ramatu Bangura has spent the last 25 years working with and on behalf of adolescent girls in New York city, Washington, DC, and as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica, and she is committed to decolonizing philanthropic practices to ensure that those most impacted by structural violence and oppression are afforded the tools to create a world we are all safe, seen, and celebrated. She currently leads the design and inception of the children's rights innovation fund prior to working there, Ramatu served as the program officer for the NoVo foundation, Advancing Adolescent Girls Rights initiative, where she co-led strategy development and grantmaking to advance philanthropy's largest portfolio, working to advance the rights leadership and wellbeing [00:01:15] of adolescent girls in the United States and in the Global South. Ramatu earned both a master's of education and doctorate of education in international and trans cultural studies at teacher's college, Columbia university, her dissertation In Pursuit of Success: the educational identities and decision-making of African girls with limited formal schooling utilized African feminism to examine how immigrant girls with limited formal schooling, navigate American schools and make decisions about college and marriage.
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