The College of Social Sciences and Public Policy’s Ruth K. & Shepard Broad International Lecture Series & The Center for Global Engagement’s Engage Your World Speaker Series present The Teach For Uganda Story: Mobilizing Young Leaders for Education Reform, a Talk by Kassaga James Arinaitwe on Thursday, November 17 with the reception at 5:30 p.m. and the presentation at 6 p.m. in The Globe Auditorium.
The speaker, Kassaga James Arinaitwe, is a Co-Founder and the current CEO of Teach For Uganda. Arinaitwe graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Mathematics and Business Administration (2009) as well as a Master of Public Health and Policy (2011). Some of his achievements include working with the Carter Center, serving as a 2012-2013 Global Health Corps Fellow and being selected as an Acumen Fund Global Fellow in 2014.
Arinaitwe is strongly committed to economic and social justice, which can be seen in his more than a decade of professional experience in international development of education, healthcare and economics in East Africa, India and the United States. He will be sharing his story with Teach For Uganda, how leadership and organizational development skills can be used to facilitate positive social change and the important role that young people must play.
Teach For Uganda was founded in 2016 as the first educational reform organization in East Africa. So far, Teach For Uganda has hired, trained and placed over 200 young leaders as teaching fellows across four regions in Uganda. They have been able to reach over 22,000 children in need of quality education and hope to grow to over 250,000 children over the next five years.
Join us to hear more of Arinaitwe’s story, the important role that young leaders play in cultural reform and how to leverage leadership skills into meaningful change.
This event counts toward one of the intercultural event requirements for the Global Citizenship Certificate.
