Lena Moraa Obara
Lena Moraa Obara is an incoming Doctoral student at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She currently works as a Research Manager in Kenya for projects addressing issues concerning women’s health and the lived environment in informal settlements run through the Columbia School of Social Work. Obara’s research interests focus on the role of the environment in women’s and girl’s physical and mental health, violence against women and children, access to and distribution of health services for women who have experienced abuse in informal settings such as internally displaced persons (IDP) and refugee camps in East Africa and the role of the built environment in women’s and girl’s experiences living in IDP and refugee camps. Additionally, she has worked as a research assistant at the University of Nairobi and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She holds a master’s degree in Sociology (Disaster Management) from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Makerere University, Uganda.
Biography current as of February 10, 2020