1. VICTORIA SETHUNYA
P.O. Box 65991 ­ Salt Lake City, UT 84165
victoriacsethunya@gmail.com ­ Tel:5102981066
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATOR WITH DIVERSE AROUND­THE­GLOBE
EXPERIENCE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Brave, honest, devoted, compassionate and passionate educator. Human and civil rights activist
with proven community service and favorable legal outcomes working to improve the rights of
immigrants as well as justice for women survivors of spousal and political abuse.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
United States of America:
● Master of Arts in Criminal Justice,
Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, 2007.
● Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Chemistry
Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, 2004.
Africa:
● Diploma in Pharmacy Technology,
National Health Training College, Maseru, Lesotho, SA 1988­1991
PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDINGS
The Manual ­ A Refugee's Education in Bureaucracy and Corruption​ is a legal defense record
of an indigent, educated, divorced, immigrant mother.
Milk ​is a collection of activist poems about the US freedom and Justice in relation to
Lesotho/South African apartheid politics.
Teboho (Gratitude)​ ​is a seven­song album, a tribute to my father who introduced me to the
dynamic world of music and “confirmed” me a singer a few days before he passed. Four are in
Latin and three in Italian. The seventh song is a South African traditional, anti­apartheid song
and prayer in Sexhosa and Sesotho.
ACTIVIST AND DIVERSITY EXPERIENCE
1. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Applications: ​Document
selection. Chronological filings.
Approved: Optional Practical Training (OPT): 2004 ­2005, Reinstatement of F1 Student Status,
2006 – 2007. Assisting Daughter in (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) DACA
Application.
2. Lawsuit on Immigrant and Education Rights:​ Demanding student records and immigration
status damaged by a “glitch.”​ US Supreme Court: ​Victoria Sethunya vs Weber State
University, et al​. ​http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/120610zor.pdf

2. 3. Public Petitions to Seek Justice ­ ​Sample petition on pollution
https://www.change.org/p/landlords­must­provide­information­on­all­poisons­to­be­used­on­pro
perty
HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS PUBLIC SPEAKING
United States of America ­ Salt Lake City, Utah
● Trayvon Martin Rally: June 2013. U.S. Courthouse
● Women for a Change Feminist Panel: August 2013. Public Library
● First Unitarian Church Summer Forum: July 2014. “Immigration from Both Sides of the
Razor Wire­­In Song and Story.” First Unitarian Church
DIVERSE MEDIA COVERAGE
1. Fight Back News​, April 2013, “Victory for African woman in Utah immigration case”
2. Paul Rolly, ​Salt Lake Tribune​, April 2013, “Record Mix­up May Send Woman Back to
Africa”
3. G. Barker, Weber State University, ​The Signpost​, January 2011, “Graduate Faces
Deportation: University error played role in student’s immigration status”
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
United States of America:
1.​ ​Activism:
● Rosa Parks Woman of Kent Award, SLC, Utah: October, 2015
● Social Justice Council Member, First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City​, Utah,
December, 2013 ­ February 2016​
● Anti­Racism Committee Charter Member, First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City,
Utah, May 2015 ­ February 2016
● Amnesty International, WSU, Ogden, Utah: August 1999 ­ 2007
2. Choir​: Annual Choir Musical/Fundraiser ­ Soloist, Embry Chapel AME (African Methodist
Episcopal) Church Ogden, Utah, 2015
3. Youth Mento​r​: ​Progressive Youth International: (1 Yr OPT Practicum), Ogden, Utah, 2004 ­
2005
4. Chemistry Laboratory Assistant: ​ Realms of Inquiry Private School for the Gifted, SLC,
Utah: 2003
Africa:
1. Activism: ​Young Christian Students Planning Team. Conscientized students to examine
sociopolitical hierarchies. ‘Mabathoana High School, Maseru, Lesotho: 1983 ­ 1994
2. Pharmacy Technologist:
● Paray Hospital, Thaba­Tseka, Lesotho: 1990 (2 months)
Voluntary rural pharmacy worker.
● .Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Maseru, Lesotho: 1992 ­ 1998
Procured, compounded, dispensed drugs and medical supplies to about 800 patients 9hr
shift. Patients’ counselling. Pharmaceutical research.
● National Health Training College (NHTC), Maseru, Lesotho: 1992 ­ 1998 Guest lecturer
in Introduction to Pharmacy to a class of 40 students.