Like mother, like daughter
LaBelle Nambangi follows her mother's footsteps and helps other African immigrants adjust to life in Minnesota
When LaBelle Nambangi heads into work, she isn’t sitting down at a quiet desk covered with neat stacks of paper. Instead she travels to five metro area high schools where her “desk” is most likely a table in a classroom, surrounded by students of African descent. Nambangi is from Cameroon, and her job is to make the United States a more welcoming place for girls and women like her.
Nambangi, 30, has lived in the Twin Cities for more than 10 years. Her mother immigrated to Minnesota in 1992, the recipient of a Hubert Humphrey International Fellowship. Nambangi and her two brothers remained in Cameroon with an aunt until they joined their mother in August of 2000.
