My journey was supported by my many teachers and mentors who guided me to a world opened up by the enlightenment of higher education, and which led to my conviction that access to quality education is the social justice issue of our time.
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
President of Liberia, 2006–2018
Liberia · b. 1938
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Served as President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018, the first woman elected head of state in Africa. Previously worked at the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, and was imprisoned in Liberia in the 1980s. Shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
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