Former Malawi President Joyce Banda

By Kaye McIntyre

Published March 10, 2019 at 6:00 AM CDT

Dr. Joyce Banda at Kansas State University

Week of March 10, 2019: We celebrate Women's History Month with the first female president of Malawi, Dr. Joyce Banda. Banda, who served from 2012 to 2014, recently announced that she'll run again for president in 2020. Banda spoke at Kansas State University's Landon Lecture Series on January 29, 2018.

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Kaye starts her weekends the same way you do: with Weekend Edition, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, This American Life, and To the Best of Our Knowledge. She started at Kansas Public Radio in 2001; in 2006, she became the producer of our weekly public affairs program, KPR Presents. In her spare time, she loves to read, travel, and attend theater.

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