https://padlet.com/nikicesares/bdsgmg64gfg9 she is the first president of liberia to get a peace prize en-us 2018-01-25 09:57:20 UTC 2026-02-11 03:22:04 UTC hello@padlet.com nikicesares https://padlet.com/nikicesares/bdsgmg64gfg9/wish/224570100 2018-01-25 10:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nikicesares/bdsgmg64gfg9/wish/224570100 nikicesares https://padlet.com/nikicesares/bdsgmg64gfg9/wish/224571149 2018-01-25 10:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nikicesares/bdsgmg64gfg9/wish/224571149 nikicesares https://padlet.com/nikicesares/bdsgmg64gfg9/wish/225424072 Johnson Sirleaf was one of three recipients, along with Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karmān, of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace]]> 2018-01-28 19:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nikicesares/bdsgmg64gfg9/wish/225424072 nikicesares https://padlet.com/nikicesares/bdsgmg64gfg9/wish/225425421 Born in Liberia in 1938, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was schooled in the United States before serving in the government of her native Liberia. A military coup in 1980 sent her into exile, but she returned in 1985 to speak out against the military regime. She was forced to briefly leave the country again]]> 2018-01-28 19:46:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nikicesares/bdsgmg64gfg9/wish/225425421 nikicesares https://padlet.com/nikicesares/bdsgmg64gfg9/wish/225425565 After returning to Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf served as assistant minister of Finance in President William Tolbert's administration. In 1980, Tolbert was overthrown and killed by army sergeant Samuel Doe, who represented the Krahn ethnic group. Johnson Sirleaf went into exile in Nairobi, Kenya, as well as in the United States, where she worked as an executive in the international banking community]]> 2018-01-28 19:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nikicesares/bdsgmg64gfg9/wish/225425565 nikicesares https://padlet.com/nikicesares/bdsgmg64gfg9/wish/225425789 In 1985, Johnson Sirleaf returned to Liberia and ran for a seat in the Senate, but when she spoke out against Doe's military regime, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison. She served a partial sentence before moving to Washington, D.C. When she returned to her native country for a third time in 1997, it was as an economist, working for the World Bank and Citibank in Africa.]]> 2018-01-28 19:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nikicesares/bdsgmg64gfg9/wish/225425789