Maya Soetoro-Ng
Maya Soetoro-Ng | |
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Soetoro-Ng in 2013 | |
| Born | Maya Kasandra Soetoro August 15, 1970 Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents | |
| Relatives | Barack Obama (half-brother) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | Border pictures: Hybrid narratives for the humanities classroom (2006) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Ericson |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Social science |
| Institutions | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng (née Soetoro; /ˈmaɪ.ə suːˈtɔːroʊ ˈɪŋ/; born August 15, 1970) is an Indonesian-born American academic, who is a faculty specialist at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, based in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is also a consultant for the Obama Foundation, working to develop the Asia-Pacific Leaders Program. Formerly a high school history teacher, Soetoro-Ng is the maternal half-sister of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.