Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Can one person make a difference in the world? Angela Bingaya has an answer: Yes. Actually, three individuals: her mother, her sister and herself.
Bingaya is pursuing her second degree from Wright State University to help even more people than she is now through her family-run organization operating out of their homeland of Burundi and in Dayton.
Bingaya, who was born and raised in Columbus, is on track to graduate in the spring of 2024 with a Master of Public Administration from Wright State’s School of Social Sciences and International Studies. It builds on the bachelor’s degree in political science that she earned from Wright State in 2021.
She has lived in Dayton since her sister, Bembeleza, moved to the area to pursue a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, which she earned in 2017. Bembeleza is now a student in Wright State’s Master of Public Health program.
Angela Bingaya said she moved because of health reasons and to be with her sister in case of emergency. She stayed for her master’s program because Wright State felt comfortable. That comfort extends to her course of study for the MPA.
“I naturally like government, public policy and law. This major seemed to fit me the most,” she said.
