Partnership Team
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Lemlem Tekuye, BA in Applied Sociology and Diploma in Community Development, has served as a Program Coordinator, Supervisor and Project Manger in government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for 25 years. She is the founder and Executive Director of Love for Children Organization. She is also a board member of several NGOs. She has participated at many international courses, short term trainings, and workshops.
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Mulu Yeneabat, MSW has 25 years of work experience. He has 10 years experience is as a research assistant in rural community efforts and 7 years as Project Officer for a local non-governmental organization working with community members. His MSW research was on Pottery Production an Asset for Womens Livelihood: A Case Study. Currently, he is the Project Coordinator for the Gedam Sefer Community University Partnership.
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BeteMichael Markos Moges is a high school graduate. He has worked as a voluntary community worker for the Christian Children's Fund for more than 6 years, and as an Assistant Purchaser for a private firm. Since January 2008, BeteMichael is the community outreach worker for the Gedam Sefer Community University Partnership.
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Alice K. Johnson Butterfield, PhD is a Professor at the Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago. Her areas of scholarship include community practice, international higher education partnerships, and asset based community development. She is co-editor of University-Community Partnerships: Colleges and Universities in Civic Engagement and Interdisciplinary Community Development: International Perspectives (Haworth Press, Inc.). She has worked with social work education and community development in Ethiopia since 2001.
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Richard Kordesh, PhD has over 25 years of experience in university teaching, planning, research, and consulting devoted to strengthening distressed communities. He is the author of Restoring Power to Parents and Places: The Case for Family-Based Community Development (iUniverse Press). Recent projects include housing as a productive family asset and an examination of comprehensive community development initiatives in five US cities. He is a leader of a new urban horticultural enterprise, "Sweet Beginnings," which provides transitional jobs for ex-offenders in Chicago.
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Wassie Kebede, MSW is a PhD candidate at Addis Ababa University. He has 11 years of community work in local and international NGOs and 2 years of teaching experience. His research includes the role of social networks in the lives of the disadvantaged female householders and the link between social networks and HIV status of poor women. His dissertation focuses on social networks as predicators of sexual practices among high school adolescents in the Gedam Sefer community of Addis Ababa. Wassie has been involved in Gedam Sefer since 2004.
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