Monique in the classroom
Monique Schmidt, our Program Director, is featured in the Ithaca Journal!
When Africa called her back, Monique Schmidt listened.
After a year of living in Ithaca, working as an adjunct professor at Tompkins Cortland Community College and a server at Moosewood, she applied for a position as the director of the Akilah Institute for Women in Rwanda. If she got the position, she’d have to build the school from the ground up.
By the time she got off the phone last November, she had accepted the job — and she would be leaving for Rwanda in two weeks.