Please join us for our first SGIS Fall Colloquium Speaker, Dr. Jeanine Ntihirageza on October 11th from 12-1p. Dr. Ntihirageza is a professor and TESOL program coordinator at Northeastern Illinois University-Chicago. She is the founding director of the Center for Genocide and Human Rights Research in Africa and the Diaspora. Her research interests are in linguistics, language teaching, refugee and genocide studies, and human rights in Africa.
A survivor of the 1972 genocide in Burundi from a mixed family, Hutu father and Tutsi mother, Dr. Ntihirageza received, in 2001, a Human Rights grant from the University of Chicago that opened doors to her Sub-Saharan refugee community work. She has since been a consultant for community-based organizations with a focus on Sub-Saharan African resettled refugees.
October 11th, 12:00-1:00pm
ZOOM: https://unl.zoom.us/j/92270866282