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Fran Osseo-Asare Writer, Educator, Instructional Designer BETUMI P. O. Box 222 State College, PA 16802 Fax: (814) 234-0431 E-mail: fran@betumi.com

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Education and Professional Interests

• BA, 1971; MSW, 1974 (Community Organization and Social Planning)
  University of California, Berkeley
• Ph.D., 1991: Rural Sociology (African Development; Social Change)
  Pennsylvania State University
• Professional Interests: technology and social change; multicultural education; distance and continuing education; community development; planning and implementing changes in educational policy and programming; West African culinary history and the sociology of food; women and development; sociology of aging and death; creative nonfiction writing

• Member, International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP)
• Member Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS)
• Coordinator, Nittany Valley Writers' Network, 2003 to present
• Founder, BETUMI: The African Culinary Network

Activities

• Food Writing and the Sociology of Food
• Continuing and Distance Education
• Arts Education