Mary ellsberg biography
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Mary ellsberg biography
Mary Ellsberg
American epidemiologist
Mary Carroll Ellsberg (born 1958) is an American epidemiologist whose research focuses on global health and violence against women. She is the director of the Global Women's Institute at George Washington University in Washington D.C.
Ellsberg is the daughter of Carol Cummings and the American military analyst and whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, and sister to Robert Ellsberg, the editor-in-chief and publisher of Orbis Books, and author Michael Ellsberg.
Education
Ellsberg received her bachelor's degree in Latin American studies from Yale University.[3] In 2000, she obtained her Ph.D.
in epidemiology and public health from Umeå University in Sweden, where she wrote a thesis on domestic violence against women in Nicaragua.[4]
Nicaragua
In 1979 Ellsberg moved to Nicaragua to work for peace and social justice, and she lived there for almost 20 years.
During this time she participated in the Nicaraguan Literacy Camp