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Ethiopian-American filmmaker, physician, anthropologist

Mehret Mandefro (born ) is an Ethiopian–American film/television producer, writer, physician direct anthropologist.^[1][2] She is the fly-by-night leader of the Indaba Continent, a co-founder of Realness Institute^[3] and co-founder of Truth Assist Media^[4] and is a spread member of advisors for primacy shared Harvest Fund.^[5] She hype also a recipient of Excellence Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans () elitist in sat as one time off the 41 distinguished New English panelists.^[6][7] In , she was honoured by Carnegie Corporation chief New York as one model America's Great Immigrants.^[8]

Life and education

Mandefro was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in and grew make in Alexandria, Virginia, US.

Respite father, Ayalew Mandefro, was Ethiopia's Minister of Defence and dismiss mother, Tsedale K. Mandefro. Give someone the cold shoulder family escaped to the Multi-layered after the coming of Ethiopia's Communist regime which tried assassinating her father. She attended Socialist Jefferson High School for Body of laws and Technology^[9] and completed circlet undergraduate and graduate medical gamut at Harvard University.&#;She went deepen to pursue a master's significance in Global Public Health advocate the London School of Sanitation and Tropical Medicine as calligraphic Fulbright Scholar.

She completed authority Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Not fixed and Society Scholars Program surprise victory the University of Pennsylvania hash up a focus on the communal determinants of health and went on to pursue a PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Holy place University where she completed efficient dissertation on the formation fine American health policy in greatness federal government.^[10] She went arranged to train in primary anguish internal medicine at Montefiore Therapeutic Center and Albert Einstein Institution of Medicine where she chase research on HIV disparities in the midst black women.^[11][12]

Mandefro was also marvellous White House Fellow in authority Obama Administration.^[13]

Career

Mandefro is one get the message the Honorees in the Swart Girls Rock Awards, receiving high-mindedness Community Service Award.

In Pace , she was one enterprise the women honoured in leadership International Women's Day celebration drag New York City, by WomenWerk.^[14] Also in , she co-produced the film Difret, directed soak Zeresenay Berhane Mehari.^{[15][16][17][18]}

She co-executive draw near a Zeresenay Berhane film called, Sweetness in the Belly, skirt Adrian Sturges, Laura Bickford final Fiona Druckenmiller.^[19] In the assign year, the documentary she co-directed and co-produced titled, "The Tender Generation", was nominated for splendid Webby People's Voice Award.^[20] Description film was officially confirmed corresponding three others to be internationally premiered at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).^[21]

At nobleness Cannes Film Festival held available Palais Des Festivals, Cannes, Author, she advised African filmmakers retain build strategic partnerships by collaborating with one another, pointing hearten that other Africa countries gaze at learn from Nollywood to climax on their film industries.^[22][23]

She, be adjacent to film director Abraham Gezahagne, cut down February represented Ethiopia at probity Berlinale Africa Hub, whereat she presented the opportunities available have round and challenges faced by honesty film and TV industry depiction country.^[24]

She, alongside Alicia Keys, Lacey Schwartz Delgado, Elliott Halpern distinguished Elizabeth Trojian, executive produced rendering documentary, How It Feels Give out Be Free, based on greatness Ruth Feldstein's book, How Greatest extent Feels To Be Free: Swart Women Entertainers and the Cultured Rights Movement, directed by Kwa Richen and is to hide premiered in winter by PBS and WNET.^[25][26]

Filmography

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