Board of Directors
Ambassador Inonge Lewanika
Ambassador Lewanika was born in west Zambia and is Zambia's Ambassador to the United States. From 1980 to 1990, she worked with UNICEF in key leadership roles in Africa. Then, in Zambia, she became one of the few female founding members of the movement for Multiparty Democracy in 1991 but later resigned and was elected as the founding president of the National Party. In 1995, she led a United Nations delegation to Burundi and Rwanda to assess the effects of the genocide. Lewanika holds a doctorate in early childhood and primary education from New York University. She was a founding board member of the International Youth Foundation.
