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CHAPTER APPENDICES ONE
its program to Zambia and served as Patron before
taking up the position of Executive Director. She
brings with her a wealth of experience on education
reforms and girls’ and women’s issues and has led a
multi-sectoral, national approach to child protection.
Dolores Dickson, Executive Director, Camfed Ghana
the £1 billion 800th Anniversary Campaign. She has
several years’ previous experience at Stanford University’s
Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and
Alumni Association. Laura has also taught women’s
writing at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and at the
University of East Anglia, UK, where she earned her
PhD in English. Laura is a graduate of Smith College, a
women’s undergraduate institution in Northampton,
Massachusetts, and has had a lifelong interest in the
education and empowerment of girls and women.
Brooke Hutchinson, Executive Director, Camfed USA
Dolores Dickson leads the Ghana program. Dolores
has international aid experience at UN Headquarters in
New York, and coordinated the Ghana charity, African
Education Aid. She also conducted socio-economic
research for the UN advisory committee for Guinea
Bissau. Dolores completed an MA in Development
Studies at the University of Manchester in 2004 and
worked at the British Red Cross Society in the UK. Since
her appointment as Executive Director, the Ghana
program has grown substantially in reach and influence
and high-level dialogue with the Ministry of Education
is securing replication of Camfed’s strategies.
Laura Donohue, Director of Development,
Camfed International
Brooke Hutchinson holds a BA in Anthropology and
Biology from the University of Colorado and an MPhil
in Biological Anthropology from the University of
Cambridge. Brooke was motivated to work in the field of
girls’ education after studying in Kenya and conducting
research on child growth stunting in the Gambia,
witnessing firsthand the direct impact of mothers’
educational levels on child and family health. Brooke
joined Camfed International in July 2004, and went
on to establish Camfed USA’s office in San Francisco
in 2006, which now leads Camfed communications
internationally.
Laura Donohue joined Camfed in April 2009, from the
University of Cambridge Development Office, where
she led the fundraising projects operation as part of
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