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Johanna Leblanc Sworn in to Post on Washington, D.C., Commission on African Affairs
12/18/2017
Johanna Leblanc, ’16, has been sworn in to her now post on the Washington, D.C., Mayor’s Commission on African Affairs. She was appointed to the commission by Mayor Muriel Bowser on September 15 to a term that ends on October 27, 2019.
The Commission was created in 2006 to advocate for, review and report on the needs of, African people who live in the District of Columbia. The Commission, which is part of the Mayor’s Office on African Affairs, also watches out for cases of abuse, neglect, and bias against African people in the District and reports those instances to the Mayor’s Office, and reviews and comments on proposed legislation at the District and at the Federal level that may impact the African community.
Leblanc, in the photo at left with Professor George Edwards, was part of the Program in International Human Rights Law while she was a student at IU McKinney. She was an intern in the Kingdom of Swaziland, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, Lesotho, and in Thailand.
