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Mehret Mandefro
Ethiopian-American filmmaker, physician, anthropologist
Mehret Mandefro (born 1977) is an Ethiopian–American film/television producer, writer, physician and anthropologist.[1][2] She is the group leader of the Indaba Africa, a co-founder of Realness Institute[3] and co-founder of Truth Aid Media[4] and is a board member of advisors for the shared Harvest Fund.[5] She is also a recipient of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (2001) and in 2007 sat as one of the 41 distinguished New American panelists.[6][7] In 2016, she was honoured by Carnegie Corporation of New York as one of America's Great Immigrants.[8]
Life and education
Mandefro was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1977 and grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, US.
Her father, Ayalew Mandefro, was Ethiopia's Minister of Defence and her mother, Tsedale K. Mandefro. Her family escaped to the US after the com