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| 7/6/2018

"It’s usually the least-liked course in the MBA program."

-- Nova Southeastern University adjunct professor JoAnn Ackerman, about her course "Accounting For Decision Makers"

Over the last two years, Gaia Calcaterra has learned how to run a global nonprofit from South Florida.

In 2015, Calcaterra, who is originally from South Africa, was visiting a friend who worked with children orphaned by AIDS and cholera in Nkomazi, a refugee camp for immigrants at the border of Mozambique and Swaziland (renamed eSwantini this year). 

By the time she got back to South Florida, Calcaterra, 45, had decided to go back to school. She wanted the formal background to be able to run a nonprofit. She took a break from her job restoring old fresco paintings and enrolled in Nova Southeastern University's MBA program in Davie. Early last month, she graduated with honors.

Read more at WLRN.

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