Special international speaker, Gertrude Goh, from Ghana, will share the popular food culture phenomenon of Jollof Rice and the digital, and in person "war" across the African diaspora. Which Jollof Rice reigns supreme: Senegalese, Ghanaian, or Nigerian?

Event open to all students, faculty, staff, and Puget Sound community members.

Gertrude Mawuena Goh is a Research, Project Management, and Business Consultant with relevant work experience in diverse teams across Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. She has successfully led about 20 projects, and supported on many others in the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem in Africa over the past 5 years. She served as a Research and Business Development Consultant at Distributed Manufacturing Ltd, Kenya where she trained and mentored makerspaces, and led research on the development of Makerspace Impact Indicators. She again served as a Research Consultant at the Global Innovation Gathering where she contributed to the development of an Open Catalog of Business Models (OCBM) for makerspaces. Presently, she serves as a Research Assistant, and Project Manager on the African Hair Stories Project, research focused on black hair in black spaces. In addition, she serves as the Director of Operations at RUG (Recycle Up! Ghana), a nonprofit hub for environmental sustainability in Ghana. Gertrude holds an MBA awarded by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, and is a Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by the Project Management Institute, USA.