Among the Maasai: A Memoir | 
pickDeeply moving & intellectually honest! Juliet Cutler‘s new memoir about her time teaching at the first school for Maasai girls in East Africa is nothing short of inspiring, even as she acknowledges the challenges & struggles inherent in the work. I felt privileged to get to read about the ways her students were impacted by access to education & reminded of how those who serve are often themselves transformed in ways they could never have imagined.
pickShe was 25 when she arrived in Tanzania to teach marginalized Maasai girls. This memoir of that time juxtaposes the fish-out-of-water experience of an earnest foreign teacher with the powerful stories of her students, surviving forced marriages and genital mutilation to learn. Cutler‘s love & respect are evident for the school community, whose work will remind you of the possibilities that arise when we rise bega kwa bega, “shoulder to shoulder.”
