07/30/2023
Meet our youngest Speaker: Ruth Kamanga is a strategic, hardworking self-starter, driven by integrity and critical thinking.
She is deeply interested in the intersection of identities and their access to the common good . She is particularly attentive to resource allocation, and access to services as well as relations amongst these vast identities within working spaces , organizations, and society.
She is a rising sophomore at Ohio Dominican University, double majoring in History and Political Science. She served on the Board of the Honors Program as the Freshman Class Representative and is the founding President of the university's debating union. In April, 2023, Ruth received the Ohio Dominican University Emerging Leader Award. She made it to the Dean's list for both semesters in her freshman year. Ruth is the founder of Hist.Ed, an educational program aimed at helping students succeed in history and social studies, and analyse the historicity of the narratives we hold today. Her mission in life is to delve into the philosophies and conventions that make and define people, in order to understand, then create the structures, system and policies in which individuals can maximize, flourish , thrive and be functional. Ruth believes that people, realities, and visions can be taken from point A to point B, where B is a better place. That is her definition of leadership.
As a national award winning debater and orator through the Association of Trust Schools in Zimbabwe, she understands the value of discourse and resolution. Ruth is dedicated to working with people, and being an agent of justice, and sound solution to them. Her resilience is remarkable. She will show up, especially on the tough days, and go the extra mile. This outlook on life has left many expressing that she is well beyond her years.
Ruth desires to see the enlargement horizons forindividuals, so that their potential may actualize. Imperative to this desire, is the knowledge that without the right systems and practices in place, people remain stagnant, and eventually regress.
"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make"- Les Brown
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