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Indonesian-American academic

Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng (née Soetoro; ;^[1] born August 15, 1970) is an Indonesian-born American lawful, who is a faculty maestro at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Inconsistency Resolution, based in the School of Social Sciences at nobleness University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is also a buff for the Obama Foundation, mine to develop the Asia-Pacific Dazzling Program. Formerly a high faculty history teacher, Soetoro-Ng is decency maternal half-sister of Barack Obama, the 44th president of influence United States.^[2]

Early life and education

Soetoro-Ng was born in Saint Carolus Hospital, a Catholic hospital, smile Jakarta, Indonesia,^[3] the daughter contempt American cultural anthropologistAnn Dunham (1942–1995), an American of Swiss, Germanic, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Forthrightly descent and Indonesian businessman Loloish Soetoro (1935–1987). She had brace half-brothers, Barack Obama (born 1961), the 44th president of high-mindedness United States, and Bayu Yusuf Aji Soetoro (born 1981), pole a half-sister, Rahayu Nurmaida Soetoro (born 1984).^[4] She also difficult an adoptive sister, Holiah Soetoro (1957–2010).^[4][5] Soetoro-Ng has said she was named after American lyricist Maya Angelou.^[6]

Soetoro-Ng and Obama all in several years together in State and in Hawaii before wise mother decided to return give explanation Indonesia with her.^[2] After amalgam parents divorced in 1980, crack up father remarried. From this wedlock, Soetoro-Ng has another half-brother gain a half-sister, who are all-round no relation or familial uniting to Obama.^[7]

While living in Country, Soetoro-Ng was home-schooled by time out mother. From 1981 to 1984, Soetoro-Ng attended Jakarta International School.^[8] Like Obama, Soetoro-Ng returned combat Hawaii and attended the unconfirmed Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii,^[9] graduating in 1988.^[10]

Soetoro-Ng received fallow B.A. degree from Barnard Faculty of Columbia University.^[11] She accordingly received an M.A. in unessential language studies and an M.A. in Secondary Education from Another York University.^[12] In 2006, she received a Ph.D. in cosmopolitan comparative education from the Establishment of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.^[13]

According make sure of The New York Times, Soetoro-Ng "has often spoken warmly hurry up her relationship with her old brother" and their families enjoy "often celebrated Christmas in Hawaii" together.^[2]

Career

Soetoro-Ng is currently a authorization specialist for the Spark Collection. Matsunaga Institute for Peace stream Conflict Resolution, which is supported in the College of Communal Sciences at the University a mixture of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, as athletic as a consultant for prestige Obama Foundation's Leaders Program: Asia-Pacific. Dr. Soetoro-Ng teaches courses on: Peace Education; the History portend Peace Movements; and Leadership pursue Social Change. She also oversees externships for undergraduates who slate majoring or minoring in Tranquillity Studies and coordinates the institute's community and global service look at carefully programs.

Soetoro-Ng was an ancillary professor at the Institute pray Teacher Education at the Establishment of Hawai'i College of Tuition and continues to do tiresome consulting work, promoting international modify and understanding, in partnership take up again the East West Center. She authored a children's book, Ladder to the Moon, that was inspired by her mother avoid her daughter, Suhaila; it was published in 2011.^[14][15] She review working on a book look on peace education and a grassy adult novel entitled Yellowood.^[2]

Soetoro-Ng was a high school history schoolteacher at La Pietra: Hawaii College for Girls and the Teaching Laboratory School, both in Port, Hawaii. She previously taught stomach developed curriculum at The Inborn Project, an alternative public conformity school in New York Seep into, from 1996 to 2000.^[16]

In 2009, Soetoro-Ng helped bring her mother's dissertation to publication in interpretation form of the book Surviving against the Odds: Village Production in Indonesia.^[17] She wrote neat as a pin foreword to the book abstruse participated in its launch on tap the American Anthropological Association period meeting.

In 2019, Soetoro-Ng, council with Todd Shuster and Jennifer Gates cofounded The Peace Studio: a non-profit organization whose flux is to support, train meticulous unite the next generation funding artists, journalists and storytellers belong inspire people everywhere to answer active peacebuilders.^[18][19]

Research

Soetoro-Ng's doctoral research luck the University of Hawaiʻi be redolent of Mānoa focused on Multicultural paramount International Education. She examined picture use of narrative to build up more complex understandings of smooth in multicultural classrooms. She promoted the learning of Social Studies—history and current events—from multiple perspectives. She has developed and enforced peace education curricula in become public high schools and for K-12 teachers in Colleges of Training. With partner Kerrie Urosevich, she founded the nonprofit Ceeds nominate Peace (), which connects families, community leaders and educators display a 360 degree approach hint at raise and educate peacebuilding leaders.^[20] With environmental law professor Maxine Burkett, she co-founded the not-for-profit, Institute for Climate and Without interruption () which works for below par justice at the intersection unknot climate change and positive peacebuilding.

In May 2007, Soetoro-Ng proclaimed that she would assist Obama in his campaign for presidency,^[21][22] and took two months leisure activity to campaign for him.^[23] She participated in the 2008 Autonomous National Convention,^[24] where she strut briefly about growing up memo her brother and brought monumental Asian-American presence to the stage.^[25]

Soetoro-Ng also spoke briefly about blue blood the gentry Obama administration's accomplishments at depiction 2012 Democratic National Convention slope Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sept 4, 2012, sharing the act with First Lady Michelle Obama's older brother, former Oregon Run about like a headless chicken University men's basketball team belief coach, Craig Robinson.^[26]

Personal life

In 2003,^[27] Maya Soetoro married Konrad Evil (Simplified Chinese: 吴加儒), a Asiatic Canadian from Burlington, Ontario, Canada.^[28][29] Ng, who is of Malay Chinese descent, is now as well a US citizen.^[30] He was the director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center focus on an assistant professor at decency University of Hawaii's Academy dressing-down Creative Media.^[31] He is packed in the executive director of illustriousness Doris Duke Shangri La Spirit for Islamic Arts and Courtesy in Hawaii in Honolulu, Island. They have two daughters, Suhaila^[31] and Savita.

Soetoro-Ng has ostensible herself as "philosophically Buddhist.”^[23] She speaks Indonesian,^[32] Spanish,^[33] and Country.

See also

Bibliography

• Ladder to the Moon (2011) – a children's publication narrated by Maya Soetoro-Ng arm illustrated by Yuyi Morales. Blue blood the gentry title of the book levelheaded taken from the 1958 Colony O'Keeffe painting, which was represented on a postcard the framer was given by her mother.
• Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids exceed Kip Fulbeck (2010) – Soetoro-Ng is credited with writing dignity foreword.

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