Bzuayehu Shiferaw Baysassaw

Bzuayehu Shiferaw has over seven years of experience in the academic sector as a lecturer in the field of business management, and three years of experience as an entrepreneurship trainer. Currently, Bzuayehu is a Lecturer at Hawassa University, where she focuses on giving course lectures, undertaking different researches, and advising students. Apart from her regular teaching activities, Bzuayehu provides entrepreneurship training to her community through an organization called Entrepreneurship Development Center Ethiopia (EDC). Bzuayehu holds a Master’s Degree in Marketing Management from Hawassa University and is one of UNCTAD’s certified National Master Entrepreneurship trainers of Ethiopia. She is driven to empower women and girls to become involved with sustainable community development. She hopes to establish a training and consultancy institute that specializes in entrepreneurship, business management, and leadership. Upon completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Bzuayehu plans to play a role in enhancing the hidden potential of woman and girls as entrepreneurs and leaders in their community through entrepreneurship training and teaching activities