I still work in development but hope to eventually “talk” full time! I often speak at our church and in January, I started a podcast and I am working on a few other creative projects. I have spent over two decades in education in the US and across the world but have recently taken a hard pivot back to my first love: creative communications. However, our natural preferences are 180 from each other on everything, so we have learned the art of selective compromise over the years! I fell in love with him at age 19 because he was super cute, smart and had an easy, laid back nature. Ben is an education researcher he’s done some cool work to improve reading outcomes for primary-age kids in the region and is the most efficient consumer of podcasts, committed and intense middle school basketball coach, and loving father and partner I could have hoped for. We are an Ethiopian/American family who has been living abroad for the last 12 years - four years in Ethiopia and the last eight in Kenya.īen and I were college sweethearts at Wake Forest University (GO DEACS!) and this summer we will celebrate 20 years of marriage. Selam! My name is Lilly and I live in dynamic and beautiful Nairobi, Kenya with my family of six. I think you are going to really connect to her attitude and ideas about what is important in life. Even though Lilly lives in a different part of the world, her days sound so much like most parents: juggling time between work and home, feeding teenagers, homework, and extra-curricular activities. Lilly is a podcaster, her husband works in education, and their kids sound like an amazing group of activists, artists and dreamers. Lilly Bekele-Piper and her husband, who both grew up in the U.S., are raising their family in Kenya after moving there from Ethiopia.

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