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Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng (née Soetoro; / ˈ m aɪ. ə s uː ˈ t ɔːr oʊ ˈ ɪ ŋ /; [1] born August 15, 1970) is an Indonesian-born American academic, who is a faculty specialist at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, based in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Stanley Armour Dunham, Ann Dunham, Maya Soetoro and Barack Obama, mid-1970s (l to r) On August 21, 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state to be admitted into the Union. Dunham's parents sought business opportunities in the new state, and after graduating from high school in 1960, Dunham and her family moved to Honolulu.
Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama's half-sister, was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. [85] She has a half-brother and half-sister, Yusuf and Aya Soetoro, from her father's second marriage. She is married to Canadian-American Konrad Ng, with whom she has two daughters, Suhaila and Savita. Maya Soetoro-Ng is a teacher in Hawaii. [86]
Soetoro met the divorced Ann Dunham at the East-West Center while both were students at the University of Hawaii, [8] [9] [10] and married on 15 March 1965. [10] [11] Soetoro, a geographer, [10] [12] returned to Indonesia in 1966 [13] to help map Western New Guinea [14] for the Indonesian government, while Dunham and her son Barack Obama moved into her parents' house in Honolulu to complete ...
Aug. 6—Two rival communities come together to combat environmental disaster in a new children's book co-authored by Hawaii's Maya Soetoro-Ng, a well-known peace activist and academic. Two ...
Stanley Armour Dunham. Stanley Armour Dunham (March 23, 1918 – February 8, 1992) was the maternal grandfather of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. He and his wife Madelyn Payne Dunham raised Obama from the age of 10 in Honolulu, Hawaii. [1][2]
Maya Soetoro-Ng (granddaughter) Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham (/ ˈdʌnəm / DUN-əm; October 26, 1922 [1] – November 2, 2008) was an American banker and the maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. She and her husband Stanley Armour Dunham raised Obama from age ten in their Honolulu apartment.
Auma Obama is the daughter of Barack Obama Sr. and his first wife, Kezia Obama (née Aoko). [4] [5] [6] She is the older half-sister of Barack Obama.After attending a local elementary school and The Kenya High School for secondary education (1973–1978), she secured a scholarship to attend university in Germany.