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President - Alexandre Dauge-Roth

He teaches French and Francophone Studies at Bates College (Maine) and works on the literature and films on the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. He has created "Friends of Tubeho" after a research trip in Rwanda in April 2006.

Vice-President - Kirk Read

He teaches French and Francophone Studies at Bates College (Maine) and works on Renaissance literature and Orientalism in North-African literature.

Secretary & Treasurer - Katherine Dauge-Roth

She teaches French at Bowdoin College (Maine) and works on XVIIth Century French culture and literature.

Board Member - Elise Duggan

After a B.A. at Bates College, she worked for one year in Kigali with the NGO "We Act-X" to provide counseling and treatement for women living with HIV or AIDS. She will start medical school in the Fall of 2007.

Board Member - Elizabeth Eames

She teaches Anthropology at Bates College (Maine) and works on gender relations in comparative perspective, the relationship between production and reproduction, cinematic representations of Africa and Africans, and the political mobilization of African market women.

Board Member - Amy Marczewski

Amy completed her Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies at UCLA in 2007, and worked for two years with Human Rights Watch in Los Angeles.  She currently serves as Associate Director of International Programs for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.


To make a donation online, click "Donate Now Through Network for Good" image below:

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 To make a donation by check, download the form here, and then make checks payable to: 

“Friends of Tubeho”
933 High Street, Bath, ME 04530  


 

Board Member - Lynn Tirrell

Lynne Tirrell teaches philosophy at U Mass Boston, and works primarily in the philosophy of language, feminist theory, aesthetics, and literary theory. Her work on hate speech in the US led her to study changing linguistic practices in Rwanda before, during, and after the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi.

Friends of Tubeho Ambassador - Berthe Kayitesi

Berthe, a Tubeho alumnus, survived the 1994 genocide and pursued studies in Canada. As a FoT Ambassador, she supports us by organizing fundraising events and raising the international profile of the organization.

To learn more about Berthe, click here http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/aco/videos.asp?id=4 to see a video of her story (in French).

 

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