Access to Education: An International Ole Experience

Mary Maker ’23 will be sharing with us her thoughts on educational access, and tie it into her lived experience as an International Ole. Mary will speak at 3:30pm in Viking Theater, and will then transition to the Norway Room for a small reception.

Due to her lived experience as a South Sudanese refugee, Mary Maker has become a refugee education activist working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). After fleeing her war-torn country as a child, she found security and hope in attending school in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. She has since become a teacher of young refugees in her community and sees education as an essential tool for rebuilding lives and empowering a generation of girls who are too often denied entrance into the classroom.  Mary pursued Theater as part of the MasterCard Foundation scholarship program at St. Olaf.