Name: Amber R. E. Walker
Year in program: 1
Primary supervisor: Michelle Moyd
Major field: African Hsitory
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Walker is a PhD student in African History with research interests in Early African and East African history, using combined methodologies of historical linguistic methods, oral tradition, GIS, and digital history. Walker has produced research on the experiences of Somali Bantu refugees, and published their chapter Wanawake Wavumilivu: Tanzanian Women’s Voices of Survivance that shares the experieces of Tanzanian women during the height of the COVID pandemic. Their current project, Mothers of the Soil, centers the voices of Tanzanian women and mothers who farm.
Before joining Spartanland, Walker accumulated over 12 years of experience as a K-12 educator and advocate for educational justice; including 8 years as a classroom teacher specializing in government and economics in both the United States and Tanzania.