External Affairs, World Bank
invite you to a screening of highlights from the upcoming documentary
IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA
Directors: Siatta Johnson and Daniel Junge
After nearly two decades of civil war, Liberia is a nation ready for change. On
January 16 2006, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was inaugurated President. She is the
first ever freely elected female head of state in Africa. Winning a hotly
contested election with the overwhelming support of women across Liberia, since
taking office she has appointed other extraordinary women to leadership
positions in all areas of government. Can the first female Liberian president
bring sustainable democracy and peace to such a devastated country? With
exclusive access, African director Siatta Johnson follows President Sirleaf and
her closest aides behind the scenes during their first year in office.
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Monday, July 16, 2007
12:30pm
World Bank J Building (J1-050)
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
Introduction by
Carl Patrick Hanlon
Manager, EXTCC, The World Bank
Discussion by filmmaker:
Siatta Johnson
Siatta Scott-Johnson was born in Buchanan, Liberia in 1974 and raised in rural
Grand Bassa County. She speaks English, Liberia Dialect English, and Bassa
fluently and is the mother of two (Kundu,12 and Mosiatta, 8). Johnson fled
Grand Bassa in the early 90?s with the outbreak of war, and eventually settled
in Monrovia, where she was caught during the last of the violence in 2003. She
has been an instructor at the secondary school level in Monrovia for three
years, and she has five years of experience as a reporter and producer at DCTV,
one of Liberia?s few broadcast television stations.
Siatta is a founding member of Omuahtee Africa Media.
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