by mbeck | Nov 5, 2015 | AIL, Sakena Yacoobi
Sakena Yacoobi, who received the 2009 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Nonprofit Leadership for her efforts to educate women and children in Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan and elsewhere, has become the latest in a series of Kravis Prize recipients to be awarded the World...
by mbeck | Jul 23, 2015 | AIL, CMC
Written by: Brittany Arneson, CMC ’16. Brittany is a Southern California native majoring in Government at Claremont Mckenna College. She has been an intern for the Office of Public Affairs for the duration of her time at CMC. Her academic interests include...
by mbeck | Jul 14, 2015 | AIL, CMC
Written by: Brittany Arneson, CMC ’16. Brittany is a Southern California native majoring in Government at Claremont Mckenna College. She has been an intern for the Office of Public Affairs for the duration of her time at CMC. Her academic interests include...
by mbeck | Feb 25, 2015 | AIL, Education, Kravis Prize, Sakena Yacoobi
In the pages of the Christian Science Monitor, Afghan Institute of Learning founder Sakena Yacoobi offers a passionate commentary about lowering the cultural barriers to educating women and girls with outreach that includes males, too. “The women who come to our...
by mbeck | Nov 14, 2013 | AIL, Female Empowerment, Health, Kravis Prize, Sakena Yacoobi
Sakena Yacoobi’s long efforts to improve the educational opportunities for women and children in Afghanistan have been awarded this year’s Opus Prize by the private, independent nonprofit Opus Prize Foundation. Yacoobi, 2009 recipient of the Henry R....
by mbeck | Jun 18, 2013 | AIL, Education, Female Empowerment, Sakena Yacoobi
Sakena Yacoobi, Founder and Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning, was among an esteemed group of recipients who were presented earlier this month with honorary degrees during the 266th Commencement Ceremony at Princeton University. Yacoobi, who was...
