Abinet Tasew
Ethiopia

Abinet Tasew Sitotaw has over nine years of experience in the education and community development sectors, focusing on girls’ and women’s empowerment and gender equality. Currently, Abinet is a Gender and Nutrition Advisor for CARE-Ethiopia, where she focuses on developing and designing concepts, problem identification, and causal and problem analysis to support the operation of gender and nutrition strategies and plans. Besides her professional engagement, she collaborates with organizations, movements, and individuals to provide community service through coaching, training, teaching, delivering motivational speeches, and engaging in community dialogues to promote women’s and girls’ empowerment and gender equality. Abinet holds a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from Addis Ababa University. Abinet is driven by her desire to witness a just society that makes thriving possible for both women and men. Upon completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Abinet plans to continue her work of inspiring, training, coaching, and mentoring young women to broaden the pool of a critical mass required for challenging and changing the patriarchy. Abinet also plans to build an agency focusing on girls’ access to education and their retention and women’s access to resources and technical skills, while advocating for an enabling policy environment.