
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Public Administration (Development Policy and Social Policy), Syracuse University, 2025
MPA. Public Administration, Syracuse University, 2017
Certificate of Advanced Studies in Civil Society, Syracuse University, 2017
MPH. Public Health, Arba Minch University, 2015
BSc. Pharmacy, Jimma University, 2007
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Roscoe Martin Fund for Dissertation and Thesis, 2025
Birkhead-Burkhead Endowed Scholarship Summer Grant, 2021-2022
Maxwell African Scholars Union Graduate Student Research Grant, 2022
Birkhead-Burkhead Endowed Scholarship Fund for Field Research, 2022
Open Society Foundation's Civil Society Leadership Award, 2016
Mandela Washington Fellow for Young African Leadership Initiative, 2015
PERSONAL INTERESTS
Spending time with family, watching action movies, watching football (soccer), and playing soccer
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