Posts by Rachel Tobias
From the field Rebuilding the lives of war-affected women
When she was 13 years old, Ashoka Fellow Milly Auma was captured by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, and was forced to serve as a the wife of a rebel commander. Eight years later, when she was finally able to escape back to her village with her two children, Milly was met by former friends and neighbors with hostility and fear. The realities she had brought home with her, in the form of both her children and her scars, epitomized everything the residents of her village had been trying to escape. Read more >>>
Rachel Tobias
Rachel is a junior at the University of Southern California studying International Relations and Entrepreneurship. Focusing on development in the Middle East and Africa, she is spending the Fall semester of 2009 in Cairo. As summer associate for Ashoka’s Global Venture and Fellowship program, she became very familiar with the stories and achievements of Ashoka Fellows. She currently works at the USC Society and Business Lab, a social enterprise incubator and think tank looking to find business solutions to the world's greatest problems.
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