Menna Demessie

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First Name: 

Menna

Last Name: 

Demessie

Address: 

UC Washington Center

1608 Rhode Island Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20036

United States

Room Number: 

Remote

Designation/Title: 

Instructor

email: 

mdemessie@ucdc.edu

Profile Description: 

Menna Demessie is the Vice President of Policy Analysis and Research for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation where she works on civil rights issues and economic development as well as other policy areas concerning African Americans and the black Diaspora. She received her joint Ph.D. in Public Policy and Political Science from the University of Michigan and her research focuses on legislative behavior, foreign policy, congressional caucuses, and racial and ethnic politics. Having received the nation’s oldest and most prestigious congressional fellowship in political science, Menna worked for Rep. Barbara Lee in the 112th U.S. Congress as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow on unemployment legislation, poverty, and foreign policy.  Menna currently serves as the historian for the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and is the national youth coordinator for the Society of Ethiopians Established in the Disapora (SEED).

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UCDC

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