Maya Soetoro-Ng | |
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Born | Maya Kasandra Soetoro August 15, 1970 Jakarta, Indonesia |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Parents | |
Relatives | Barack Obama (half-brother) |
Academic background | |
Education | |
Thesis | Border pictures: Hybrid narratives for the humanities classroom (2006) |
Doctoral advisor | David Ericson |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Social science |
Institutions | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng (née Soetoro; /ˈmaɪ.ə suːˈtɔːroʊ ˈɪŋ/;[1] born August 15, 1970) is an Indonesian-born American academic, who is a faculty specialist at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, based in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is also a consultant for the Obama Foundation, working to develop the Asia-Pacific Leaders Program. Formerly a high school history teacher, Soetoro-Ng is the maternal half-sister of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.[2]
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