By some counts, there are over 250,000 Ethiopians who call the DC metro area home. The number is most likely significantly higher given the inexact nature of quantifying immigrants and the fact that a lot of newcomers are averse to identifying themselves. Outside of our homeland, the DMV has the highest concentration of Ethiopians in the world and our community is the second largest immigrant population from Africa.
The one thing that we are missing as a community is a common platform where people with audacious visions can team up and work together. In fact, all too frequently, we have a way of valuing competition over partnership. When we realize that cooperation is better than working in opposition, there will be a sea change both within the Ethiopian “diaspora” and back home. The key to prosperity is unleashing the latent power of collaboration.
This is where Helen Mesfin, the host of the Helen Show and the founder of Empower the Weekend steps in. After spending seven years in front of the camera bringing the stories of Ethiopians and the issues we face as a community to the forefront, she decided to leverage her credentials to put together an event that coalesces a broad dissection of Ethiopians in the DC area in a one day symposium that aims to ...continued...
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