Jane Martin

Jane Martin "has spent much of her life working with Africans and Americans for African advancement. She worked with Liberian teachers as a member of Operation Crossroads Africa and has returned to Liberia ever since in various positions. As a member of the African Women and Peace Support Group, she was one of the authors of Liberian Women Peacemakers: Fighting for the Right to Be Seen, Heard and Counted and is Secretary and member of the Board of Trustees of Friends of Liberia (FOL). Currently she is the volunteer curator of African Art at the Everhart Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where the present African Art exhibit was developed under her direction in 2001-2. Dr. Martin received her BA and Master's degrees from Bryn Mawr College and her PhD in African History from Boston University."


 * Director, Sirleaf Market Women's Fund