Tea at 3: Dr. Jackson Muhirwe

Tea at 3 is an engaging and interactive speaker series where attendees hear from CWU faculty, staff and community members as they share stories of their personal journeys to their current places in life. On Wednesday, April 20, attendees can join Dr. Jackson Muhirwe, CWU assistant professor of Information Technology and Administrative Management, in the Student Union and Recreation Center (SURC) Pit at 3 p.m. Attendance is free and open to the public. An expert on cybersecurity, Dr. Jackson Muhirwe will talk about the challenges he faced to graduate with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Makerere University, a top ten university in Africa. His talk will address how he overcame poverty, a broken family and the lack of scholastic materials and classrooms that forced him to study under a tree for three years. By the time Muhirwe was 15, had little hope of ever making it to high school. Hear Dr. Muhirwe?s story of how he overcame the odds and is now an assistant professor of Information Technology and Administrative Management at Central Washington University.