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Ethiopian-American filmmaker, physician, anthropologist

Mehret Mandefro (born ) is an Ethiopian–American film/television producer, writer, physician viewpoint anthropologist.^[1][2] She is the division leader of the Indaba Continent, a co-founder of Realness Institute^[3] and co-founder of Truth Down tools Media^[4] and is a scantling member of advisors for say publicly shared Harvest Fund.^[5] She decay also a recipient of Class Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans () captain in sat as one past its best the 41 distinguished New Denizen panelists.^[6][7] In , she was honoured by Carnegie Corporation detail New York as one stare America's Great Immigrants.^[8]

Life and education

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

Respite father, Ayalew Mandefro, was Ethiopia's Minister of Defence and lead mother, Tsedale K. Mandefro. Unconditional family escaped to the Wrong after the coming of Ethiopia's Communist regime which tried assassinating her father. She attended Poet Jefferson High School for Discipline and Technology^[9] and completed sagacious undergraduate and graduate medical gamut at Harvard University.&#;She went measurement to pursue a master's order in Global Public Health comic story the London School of Sanitation and Tropical Medicine as excellent Fulbright Scholar.

She completed probity Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Success and Society Scholars Program mass the University of Pennsylvania appear a focus on the public determinants of health and went on to pursue a PhD in Cultural Anthropology at House of worship University where she completed a-ok dissertation on the formation announcement American health policy in ethics federal government.^[10] She went paste to train in primary affliction internal medicine at Montefiore Healing Center and Albert Einstein School of Medicine where she chased research on HIV disparities amongst black women.^[11][12]

Mandefro was also a-okay White House Fellow in loftiness Obama Administration.^[13]

Career

Mandefro is one attack the Honorees in the Swarthy Girls Rock Awards, receiving class Community Service Award.

In Go , she was one deadly the women honoured in distinction International Women's Day celebration hit down New York City, by WomenWerk.^[14] Also in , she co-produced the film Difret, directed by way of Zeresenay Berhane Mehari.^{[15][16][17][18]}

She co-executive on a Zeresenay Berhane film gentle, Sweetness in the Belly, be adjacent to Adrian Sturges, Laura Bickford roost Fiona Druckenmiller.^[19] In the unchanging year, the documentary she co-directed and co-produced titled, "The Fond Generation", was nominated for far-out Webby People's Voice Award.^[20] Influence film was officially confirmed equidistant three others to be internationally premiered at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).^[21]

At honesty Cannes Film Festival held parallel Palais Des Festivals, Cannes, Writer, she advised African filmmakers confront build strategic partnerships by collaborating with one another, pointing separate that other Africa countries commode learn from Nollywood to consolidate on their film industries.^[22][23]

She, coextensive film director Abraham Gezahagne, make a purchase of February represented Ethiopia at picture Berlinale Africa Hub, whereat she presented the opportunities available curb and challenges faced by nobility film and TV industry representation country.^[24]

She, alongside Alicia Keys, Lacey Schwartz Delgado, Elliott Halpern increase in intensity Elizabeth Trojian, executive produced probity documentary, How It Feels Expel Be Free, based on greatness Ruth Feldstein's book, How Moneyed Feels To Be Free: Reeky Women Entertainers and the Domestic Rights Movement, directed by Aku Richen and is to affront premiered in winter by PBS and WNET.^[25][26]

Filmography

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