The Shadow King, new novel from Maaza Mengiste

A gripping novel set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical record. With the threat of Mussolini’s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster’s household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie’s army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade.

Rediet Abebe a computer science researcher at Cornell University #EthiopiansInNewYork

She specializes in algorithms, artificial intelligence, and their application for social good. She told an audience at EmTech Digital, an event organized by MIT Technology Review, that she has discovered a surprising lack of collaboration in certain areas of AI research.

https://events.technologyreview.com/video/watch/rediet-abebe-mechanism-design-social-good/

Tsion Tesfaye receives full funding for graduate study at Stanford #EthiopiansInNewYork

Tesfaye, from Holeta, Ethiopia, is pursuing a master’s degree in statistics (data science track) at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. She graduated from Hamilton with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a minor in education studies. Tesfaye presented her Youth for Ethiopia project at the Clinton Global Initiative University in 2016, as well as social innovation conferences and trainings in Austria, Japan, Rwanda, and the U.S.

https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/tesfaye-knight-hennessy-scholar-stanford

Temesgen Zeleke and Kathryn Hunter star in The Emperor #EthiopiansinNewYork

It is an account of the fall of  Haile Selassie, based on the book of the same title by Ryszard Kapuscinski.  Production opened on Sunday at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, New York. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/theater/the-emperor-review-kathryn-hunter.html

Ilfenesh Hadera stars in Spike Lee's new joint on Netflix #EthiopiansInNewYork

Growing up in New York City helped Hadera embrace her identity as the daughter of an acupuncturist and an Ethiopian refugee. “I identify as half Ethiopian, half white. I’m equal parts. I hear so many biracial people say, ‘I didn’t know where I fit in.’ But I grew up in Harlem and went to school on the Upper West Side, where half the students looked like me. I consider myself lucky to have lived in this bubble.”

http://www.okayafrica.com/ilfenesh-hadera-shes-gotta-have-it/

Timnit Gebru is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research #EthiopiansInNewYork

http://ai.stanford.edu/~tgebru/

Meklit Hadero will perform at The Sanctuary for Independent Media #EthiopiansInUnitedStates

Edelawit Hussien shot a short fashion film, ADDIS AFRICANA #EthiopiansInNewYork