Community-Based Education Programming for Grassroots Organizations

Minh-Thu Pham was a Hart Fellow from 1998-1999 in Ethiopia with Save the Children-US, where she documented and provided support for a community-based education project that empowers grassroots organizations and communities to meet their own educational needs. In addition, she worked with Hart Fellow, Catherine Wiesner to produce a publication that focused on the rights of refugee children in Ethiopia for the Action for the Rights of Children (ARC) Project, a joint initiative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and Save the Children. Minh-Thu was also a Hart Fellow with the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children in Washington, DC from 1999-2000 where she researched and advocated for legislation to benefit women and children asylum seekers.

Minh-Thu graduated from Duke in 1998 with a major in history. As an undergraduate, Minh-Thu participated in Hart Leadership's Refugee Action Project in the former Yugoslavia in 1996. After completing her Hart Fellowships, she completed a master's degree at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.