Category: Profiles

For the past three years, Tesfaye Tekelu, Co-Founder and Manager of the Awassa Youth Campus (AYC), has been training at Aikido dojos around the world.

Tadias magazine interviewed Yohannes Gebregeorgis, one of the Top Ten CNN Heroes of 2008, who says his literacy efforts are “a drop in the ocean.”

We recently spoke with Valerie Steele, CEO of GojoSuites, a brokerage firm that sells property in Ethiopia, about the current real estate market in that country.

We recently spoke with Kedist Geremaw, a health care administrator and one of the 3,600 individuals who were selected and trained as an Obama Organizing Fellow this summer.

Ethiopian-born Bekele Geleta has been appointed as the Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Here is our interview with Bekele Geleta.

He is a former Director of iBrooklyn and a current executive at PCI. His company organized the first Ethiopian Diaspora business conference and is now offering attractive equity investment opportunities to the Diaspora.

Tadias contacted a volunteer for Senator Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign. Here is our interview with Adey Fisseha, law student in New York.

We recently had an email chat with Wondwossen D. Dikran, director of the independent film Journey to Lasta, which has been picked up by Vanguard Cinema, and is now available in most major outlets, including Blockbuster.com and Netflix.com.

Ethiopian-born celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson is introducing an exclusive line of professionally styled cookware, manufactured by Regal Ware Worldwide, which will be available at major retailers this fall.

The first time that Tadias Magazine had interviewed Marcus was in March 2003. Marcus had mentioned back then that he intended to work on an African cookbook. Read More.

The story of how Henok Tesfaye, who immigrated from Ethiopia at 16, was able to give his mother her own restaurant begins in the mid-1990s. (The Washington Post)

Ethiopian-born Yeworkwoha Ephrem and Salome Yilma are New York City entrepreneurs. They own EthiDolls™, a company that develops collector quality African signature dolls.

The Oldest Winery in America Produces One of the World’s Earliest Wines. The honey wine may be newly introduced to America, but Ethiopians have known it for centuries as “Tej”.

Hanna Gessesse points to a photograph in one of her father’s albums. The photograph was taken two years ago in Addis Ababa and shows the main stage of the Africa Unite concert, which was the brainchild of her father, Addis.