Linda is committed to gender-based analyses and programming of humanitarian and development initiatives in the African context. She has extensive fieldwork experience in community needs assessments, preventive health interventions, and small-scale farming in Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique, and Uganda. She has a Master’s degree in Humanitarian Assistance from the Friedman School of Nutrition, Tufts University. She is the co-author of “Women, Girls, Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR)” with Dyan Mazurana, published in “Women and Wars,” edited by Carol Cohn. Linda is the recipient of the 2014 Leah Horowitz Humanitarian Award. She was also nominated for the 2019 Santa Barbara-UNA Peace Prize.
Linda actually began working in Africa at age 18 after she saw an ad in the paper asking for volunteers. Intending to stay just the one year she ended up spending several years. In this interview learn what happens during conflicts and how difficult it is for women to rebuild once the war is over when everything is destroyed. Hear her story about children raising children and their most common needs, and how through listening and conversations she was able to help them be successful with her amazing team of people in Uganda.
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