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EDUCATION    EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS ECOLOGY, AND 

                         SYSTEMS MODELING

 

1976                Master of Science Degree, Tropical Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,

                        Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies,

                        New Haven, CT

 

1974                Bachelor of Science Degree, Natural Resources Systems Management,

                        University of California, Berkeley, School of Agriculture and Natural                                          Resources, Berkeley, CA

 

1972                University of Ghana at Legon, University of California, Berkeley Exchange                              Program, Volta River Hydroelectric Dam Basin Ecology and National                                      Population Dynamics, Legon, Ghana, West Africa

 

1996                System Dynamic Modeling Course, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,                            Cambridge, MA

 

EDUCATION    ECONOMICS AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

1985-88           National Economics Association Doctoral Fellow, University of Maryland,                                College Park, MD

 

1984                Economics and Commercial Studies, U.S. Foreign Service Institute,                                        Washington, DC

 

1991                Development Studies, U.S. Foreign Service Institute and American                                          University, Washington, D.C.

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EDUCATION   INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS PHILOSOPHY AND MEDIA

 

In Process       Doctoral Researcher, Institute of Communications Research,

                        College of Media,

                        University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

                        Major in Communications Philosophy; Minors in Dance and in Film,

 

2017                Africana Philosophy Summer School, Caribbean Philosophy Association,

                        University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

 

2013                International Summer School on Musical Understanding: Philosophical,                                  Psychological and Neurological Approaches, University of Sheffield,                                        Sheffield, England

 

EDUCATION    PERFORMANCE AND FILM

 

2004-07           Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, (Voice, Piano,                                    Theory, Ensemble, Dance), Kingston, Jamaica, Caribbean West Indies

 

2000                Musicians Institute, (Voice, Piano, Theory, Ensemble), Los Angeles, CA

 

1994                The Berklee College of Music (Voice, Piano, Theory, Ensemble), Boston, MA

 

1970–              Studied dance and music at universities where I pursued ecology and            Present           economics. They include: Yale University; University of California, Berkeley;                            University of Ghana, Legon; and University of Maryland, College Park

 

EDUCATION   ADDITIONAL SKILLS TRAINING

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2020                Licensed Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance

                        Yoga to Create a Just and Life Sustaining World as specialty

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1984                Facilitator  - Trainer in Racial Dialogue and Understanding and in Conflict                                Resolution, Trained and certified by the Institute of Studies,

                        Washington, D. C. 

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1979​                Language: English as first language; Fluent in French while working                                        throughout Francophone Africa for five years. Trained at the Service Institute,

                        Washington, DC.

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1976                Scuba Diver - Certified by the National Association of Underwater Instructors                          (NAUI)  

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