Aklilu Teferi is an enthusiastic educator, researcher and Child protection worker. In addition to his undergraduate studies in Management in Ethiopia, Aklilu earned both BSW and MSW with honor from U of M, where his research area focused on children’s education, human migration and resettlement issues. His professional career spans over seventeen years in the Social Services sector, where he developed a passion for interdisciplinary and integrated approaches to understand human behaviors as it is exercised in an ongoing and increasingly broader and more complicated circumstances of individuals and group existence.
In recent years, Aklilu extensively worked with not–for–profit organizations and the Government of Manitoba in various capacities including serving as board of directors and taught social work courses at Booth University College and the University of Manitoba. Furthermore, his experience as a volunteer at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and community outreach work in the inner city of Winnipeg has helped him to better understand the challenges vulnerable children and their families from the Newcomer population face and practice social work from global and interdisciplinary perspectives. Currently Aklilu is awaiting his thesis defense for a PhD award.
