Andom Ghebreghiorgis
Andom Ghebreghiorgis was born in New York, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science and economics from Yale University in 2007 and a master's of secondary special education from the City College of New York in 2012. Ghebreghiorgis’ career experience includes working as a teacher, activist, and children's book author.
Imperialism & Militarism in the Sahel & East Africa
Imperialism & Militarism in the Sahel & East Africa - Thursday, April 15, 2021
Please join the DSA International Committee, DSA Muslim Caucus, Africa Is A Country, and Haymarket Books for this panel discussion on the growing imperialist interventions in the Sahel and East Africa and how to fight them.
- Samar Al-Bulushi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research is broadly concerned with surveillance, militarism, and policing in the context of the so-called 'War on Terror' in East Africa. She is a contributing editor at Africa is a Country and her work has appeared in The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Jacobin, and Pambazuka.
- Brittany Meche is the Gaius Bolin Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Studies at Williams College. Brittany earned her PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley, and she is currently writing a book about transnational security regimes, environmental knowledge, and the afterlives of empire in the West African Sahel.
- Alex Thurston is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of three books, most recently Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups (2020). He edits the Sahel Blog.
Facilitator: Andom Ghebreghiorgis is a former special education teacher who recently ran for Congress in NY’s 16th District. He is active with the Eritrean justice organization One Day Seyoum and is a member of Lower Hudson Valley Democratic Socialists of America and the DSA International Committee.[1]
Upper Manhattan/Bronx DSA Closed Facebook Group
Members of the Upper Manhattan/Bronx Democratic Socialists of America, closed Facebook group, as of May 28, 2017 included Andom Ghebreghiorgis .[2]