A native of Liberia and a strong advocate for educational, developmental, gender equality, service-learning and refugee issues, Dr. Horton, is currently the President of Cuttington University in Liberia, making her the First Female President in the University’s 133 year history. She graduated Summa Cum Laude (Valedictorian) with a degree in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from Voorhees College, a private Episcopal College in Denmark, South Carolina. She worked as a Solution Delivery Analyst with Accenture, LTD, a global consultancy for several years before pursuing graduate studies and obtained a M.A. with Distinction, in International Service and Development at the University of Surrey, now Roehampton University, London.
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A native of Liberia and a strong advocate for educational, developmental, gender equality, service-learning and refugee issues, Dr. Horton, is currently the President of Cuttington University in Liberia, making her the First Female President in the University’s 133 year history. She graduated Summa Cum Laude (Valedictorian) with a degree in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from Voorhees College, a private Episcopal College in Denmark, South Carolina. She worked as a Solution Delivery Analyst with Accenture, LTD, a global consultancy for several years before pursuing graduate studies and obtained a M.A. with Distinction, in International Service and Development at the University of Surrey, now Roehampton University, London.
After graduation she worked as a Solution Delivery Analyst with Accenture, LTD, a global consultancy for several years before pursuing graduate studies. She obtained a M.A. with Distinction, in International Service and Development at the University of Surrey, now Roehampton University, London and worked with the International Partnership for Service-learning and Leadership as Director of Student Programs for a number of years.
She reviewed and edited the book, “Sustaining Liberia’s Peace”, authored by Hon. Olubanke King-Akerele and wrote the Prologue for the Questionnaire for Volume Two; she also wrote the Concept Note for and participated in the 2019 Queens Commonwealth Essay Competition and Awards Ceremony held at Buckingham Palace in October 2019; She chairs the Board of Trustees of Kids Educational Engagement Project (KEEP), an organization that is instrumental in building reading rooms across Liberia; a member of the Board of EcoBank Liberia; was a Human Development Panelist on Education at Warwick University’s Annual Africa Summit in the United Kingdom and authored Chapter 11 (Education) of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Legacy Project.
She has a Ph.D. in Educational Administration and Leadership (Education Management) from the University of Botswana; was called to national duty and served as Deputy Minister for Instruction at the Ministry of Education, Republic of Liberia; Chief Government Nominee for the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Liberia, Vice-Chairperson of WAEC, International, Vice President for Academic Support Services at AME University and is an African Women Academics in Research & Development (AWARD) Fellow. A competent, dynamic and progressive Liberian professional, her ethos is to transform, impact and inspire.
She continues to play an important role in the human development sector. Her track record to date speaks for itself as her work has directly contributed to Liberia’s Development Goals, The Agenda for Transformation, Education 2030 and the SDGs. She is an avid reader who loves to travel to learn and experience new things and meet new people. Her research interest centers on educational matters, gender, refugees, development and service-learning.