Clea Koff Case Study

I chose to write my bio-sketch on Clea Koff, she is a forensic anthropologist and author who worked for the United Nations as well as for the Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the tribal for the formal Yugoslavia. She was born in 1972 in London, England to Msindo Mwinyipembe and David Koff. Her father was American and Jewish, and her mother was Tanzanian. Both of her parents were documentary filmmakers who were focused on many issues such as human rights and traveled the world for their work; taking Clea and her brother along with them. Clea was able to spend her childhood all over the world in places such as various states in the United States, Somalia, England, Kenya, and Tanzania. She was a brilliant student and as she grew older she had already decided that she wanted to study Osteology. She was able to receive her bachelor’s degree at Stanford University in Anthropology and her master’s degree at the …show more content…
So I started my research and was able to narrow my choices down to forensic anthropology and finally came across Clea Koff in a list of top 10 forensic anthropologists of all time. I was really excited when I read about Clea because it seemed like she had lived a really fascinating life. She was able to travel the world with her family seeing and experiencing all different types of cultures, which is personally my favorite part of traveling. My family travels every chance we get so I would have loved to be able to really live and fully experience what she was able to. Another reason I chose her was because of the research she did in Rwanda. I remember in high school we learned about Rwanda and watched “Hotel Rwanda”; it was such a tragic event in history that does not get the recognition that it deserves. Overall, I think that Clea Koff is a really strong and influential woman and the work she has accomplished amazed