WINTER 2023-2024 18 WINTER COMMENCEMENT Dr. Ndolembai S. Njesada Dr. Mark Yarbrough DBU celebrated 395 new undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral graduates, and now DBU alumni, at this year’s Winter Commencement services held on Friday, December 15. More than 41,000 graduates are now spread throughout the world to bring the transforming light of Christ into their professional and ministry callings. At the 10:00 a.m. service, Dr. Ndolembai S. Njesada (a DBU alumnus) provided the address to the new graduates. Dr. Njesada holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) and serves as a consultant in public health and as a political advisor to various NGOs and companies in multiple countries. His collaborative effort with government institutions and local and international NGOs led to the first-ever universal, mosquitotreated net distribution in his home country of Chad with over eight million nets distributed. In 2015, Dr. Njesada joined Partners for Refugee Empowerment (PRE) in Fort Worth as a Program Manager, providing strategic planning in designing, implementing, and monitoring mental health services for resettled refugees in Tarrant County. In 2018, he resigned as Deputy Chief of Mission at the United Nations Office of International Migration (UN-IOM) to co-found and advocate on behalf of the new “Les Transformateurs” political party in Chad. Dr. Mark Yarbrough, who serves as the sixth President of Dallas
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