Nadine Tièrowè Somda

Nadine Tièrowè Somda has over eight years of experience teaching English as a second language. She currently works in public and private schools. As a teacher, she is also a girls’ empowerment enthusiast who plays the card of equal participation between boys and girls in her class. Nadine Tièrowè Somda once volunteered to help a Peace Corps volunteer run a girls’ club in a school, and she now runs an English club in her current school. Nadine has just defended a master’s degree in Anglophone African Literature from the University Joseph Ki-Zerbo of Ouagadougou, and her dissertation focused on women’s oppression. Upon completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Nadine plans to initiate a teachers’ association to offer mentoring programs to school boys and girls with a view to expanding opportunities to further their education.