Yvette Chesson-Wureh
| Yvette Chesson-Wureh | |
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 YvetteChessonWureh.jpg Yvette Chesson Wureh, Coordinator of Angie Brooks Centre | |
| Born | Yvette Chesson September 27, 1952 Liberia |
| 🏫 Education | Hardbarger Junior College |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Shaw University - BSC in business administration North Carolina Central University (NCCU) - Juris Doctorate of Law Bowie State University - Certificate of Mediation & Arbitration |
| 💼 Occupation | Establishment coordinator - Angie Brooks International Centre (ABIC) Board President - Isis- Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE) Member - US Supreme Court Bar Assoc. Member - Assoc. of Female Lawyers in Liberia Member - Board of Tax Appeals of Liberia Co-chair - FemWise Founding Member - Liberian Lappa Revolution |
| Title | Counsellor Dr. Yvette Chesson-Wureh of Liberia |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Janyene E Wureh (former, deceased) Chauncey Gibson (current) |
| 👶 Children | 4 |
| 👴 👵 Parent(s) | Joseph Chesson (father, deceased) Catherine Leona Chesson (mother, deceased) |
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Counsellor Dr. Yvette Chesson-Wureh is the establishment coordinator of the Angie Brooks International Centre (ABIC) for Women’s Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security based in Liberia, West Africa. In 2009, Cllr. Chesson-Wureh was the manager of the International Women’s Colloquium for Women’s Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security[1] which was co-convened by H.E. President Tarja Halonen of Finland and H.E. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and attended by the Council of Women World Leaders. Counsellor Chesson-Wureh is a current member of the United States Supreme Court Bar, the U.S. Federal District Bar, as well as the Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL)[2]. Cllr. Chesson-Wureh was a member of the Liberian Joint Presidential Transition Team (JPTT) that was tasked with transitioning from the first elected woman president in Africa, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's administration to the incoming government of President-elect George Weah in 2018.[3] She currently works as an attorney and advocate, specifically for women's rights in Liberia.
Early life
Yvette Chesson-Wureh was born Yvette Chesson on September 27, 1952. She is the daughter of Joseph Chesson, former Assistant Attorney General and chief government prosecutor of Liberia, and Catherine Leona Chesson (née Tucker), who was a lawyer and diplomat, and also worked at the University of Liberia as professor of mathematics. Joseph and Catherine were married on April 21, 1951, a day after Joseph's 32nd birthday. Yvette is the oldest daughter of the 19 children conceived by her parents. She attended Stella Maris Convent for elementary school before heading to St. Theresa's Convent, an all-girls high school. Her parents divorced in 1971, with her father remarrying to Florence Wilson. In 1980, Joseph Chesson was executed along with twelve other government officials following the assassination of Liberian President William R. Tolbert as a result of a military coup d'etat.[4] Yvette fled the country following the coup, which later led to the First Liberian Civil War, and sought refuge in the United States, resettling in North Carolina.
Education
In 1969, Dr. Chesson-Wureh graduated from the St. Theresa's Convent School in Liberia with a high school diploma. After her decampment to the United States, she continued her education by attending Hardbarger Junior College of Business, where she earned an Associate's degree in Computer Science and Computer Programming. Chesson-Wureh later obtained a BSC in Business Administration from Shaw University before going on to law school. In 1988, she received her Juris Doctorate of Law degree with honors from the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law. It was also this year in which she was featured in the annual publication of "Who's Who in American Law Schools"[5]. Dr. Chesson-Wureh has also received various certifications, including a Certificate of Mediation and Arbitration from Bowie State University in Maryland.
Professional life
Chesson-Wureh returned to Liberia in 2004 when Ellen Johnson Sirleaf started running for office. Chesson-Wureh referred to herself as part of the April 22nd Group, which she describes as a group descending from the thirteen government officials executed on April 22, 1980, who came together "to support reconciliation and healing"[6]. She was mentored in her advocacy by Dorothy Height and Ruth Sando Fahnbulleh Perry, and has often acted as advisor to President Sirleaf on matters concerning women's rights, peace in Liberia, and the welfare of the Liberian people. She helped to initiate a non-violent elections campaign, in a collaboration with over 30 other youth and women's advocacy groups, for the Liberian elections in 2011 to combat the threat of violence faced by voters in many African countries, which was known as “The Peace is in our Hands” and later successfully established as the “Women's Situation Room” (WSR)[7]. The Women's Situation Room has been successfully replicated in eight African nations between 2012 and 2020, with observers being mobilized to political hotspots to resolve reported electoral violence or threats in real-time. Dr. Chesson-Wureh presently serves as the chairwoman of the Eminent Women's Room of the Women's Situation Room and provides the technical expertise for its operations.
Chesson-Wureh chaired the logistics and acted as the secretariat of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s inauguration of 2012 as well as the logistics and event planning committee for the United Nations High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as it was held in Liberia. She currently oversees many of the various programs of the Angie Brooks International Centre such as the Chief Suah Koko Centre [8] and its adult literacy program, the Pink Panthers, the mentorship and internship of young Liberians, and various training programs. Chesson-Wureh is an inaugural member of the first Board of Tax Appeals for the Republic of Liberia, serving from 2012 to 2018. As a member of the Liberian President’s Ebola Advisory Group on the Ebola epidemic, she engaged the youth of Liberia under ABIC’s leadership to engage in training and vigilance to combat the Ebola virus[9]. Cllr. Chesson-Wureh acted as legal aid to the Government of Liberia in regards to the epidemic as a pro-bono lawyer for the national Ebola response and vaccination team. Currently, Cllr. Chesson-Wureh is the Co-Chair of FemWise[10] for the 15 ECOWAS countries, after being elected to that shared position in 2019[11], a member of the GHRF Commission of the National Academy of Medicine[12], and a founding member of the Liberian Lappa Revolution, with a mission to address and correct gender imbalances in the country's power structures[13].
Awards and accomplishments
Cllr. Dr. Chesson-Wureh was a jury member for nominations for the first International Medical Peace Award in 2011.[14]
References
- ↑ "International Colloquium on Women's Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security". Council of Women World Leaders. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
- ↑ "Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL)". Namati. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
- ↑ "Joint Presidential Transition Team Holds First Meeting Ahead of January 22, 2018 Inauguration". www.mofa.gov.lr. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
- ↑ "Liberia's Ghost of April 22nd: 40 Years Later, Family of Slain Tolbert Govt. Officials Trumpet Hope, Harmony". FrontPageAfrica. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
- ↑ Marquis Who's Who, Inc.,. (1978). Who's who in American law. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who.
- ↑ "Women in Peacebuilding: Liberia". Community of Democracies.
- ↑ Paula Drumond, Elisabeth Prügl & Maria Consolata Spano (2022) Mobilizing Gender for Conflict Prevention: Women’s Situation Rooms, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 16:3, 249-268, DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2021.1999136
- ↑ "Dedication of the Chief Suah Koko Centre – Angie Brooks International Centre". Retrieved 2022-09-22.
- ↑ Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future; National Academy of Medicine, Secretariat. The Neglected Dimension of Global Security: A Framework to Counter Infectious Disease Crises. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2016 May 16. Appendix D, Biographical Sketches of Commission Members, Consultants, and Staff. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK368396/
- ↑ Makan-Lakha, Pravina; Ngandu, Kapinga Yvette (2017-10-31). "The Power of Collectives: Femwise Africa". Africa Portal. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
- ↑ "Dr. Yvette Chesson-Wureh – CoD". Retrieved 2022-09-22.
- ↑ "Global Health Risk Framework". National Academy of Medicine. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
- ↑ "Focus on Africa - Liberia: The campaign to correct gender imbalance - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
- ↑ "Jury | Medical Peace Work". www.medicalpeacework.org. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
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