May 22, 2010

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf spoke candidly about her early life during the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) commencement ceremony on May 22 and reminded them that complacency is the “worst enemy of progress.” Brought up in a modest home, she married immediately after high school and started a family. At that time, she said no one would have imagined she would go on to become Africa’s first democratically-elected, female state leader.