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Dr. Beatrice Wamey

Dr. Beatrice Wamey is a naturalized American citizen who migrated to the United States with her family in 1995. The third of three girls born to a peasant family in the small mountain village of Lum-Oku, in the North West Province of Cameroon, Beatrice walked twelve miles every day to and from her elementary school.

She subsequently attended Saint Augustine's Secondary School in Banso and acquired a high school education through independent study while working with the local government. She then went on to Yaounde University, where she majored in English Modern Letters. After her undergraduate studies, Beatrice was admitted into the Higher Teacher's College of Yaounde University where she completed a graduate program in the Teaching of English as a Second Language. After two years of teaching she gained an AFGRAD Fellows Award to do a Masters program in Applied Linguistic at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Professional Life
She returned to Cameroon and a fulltime job as English teacher in the Yaounde bilingual high school, part time instructor of phonetics at the University and adjunct instructor of methodology at the Higher Teachers College. This was punctuated by interludes of professional and political activism that spiced up her life and yielded recognition and respect from professional peers and seniors.

Upon returning to the United States, bread and butter issues back home drove her into the intimidating but alluring field of instructional systems technology. After four years of intensive work at Indiana University in Bloomington, she graduated with a PhD in Instructional Systems Technology.

Beatrice has since worked as an instructional designer with the World Bank Institute, a consultant with the World Bank Country office in the Republic of Congo and a trainer-trainer/instructional designer for the Foreign Service Institute before creating her own organization.

Activist and Teacher
Beatrice has a well-deserved reputation for social activism and fighting for the rights of the down-trodden. She joined Cameroon's first modern opposition party, the Social Democratic Front (SDF) shortly after its creation, when this was not only considered a bad career move but a dangerous venture. And as the only female executive member of the Teacher's Association of Cameroon, she contributed significantly to the education reforms that led to the creation of the General Certificate of Education Examinations Board, where she served as the Research Officer for three years.

Married, mother of two sons
and lots of children, Dr. Wamey
is an epitome of female
managerial, multi-tasking
capabilities that are
characteristic of women
around the world.