Mainlehwon Vonhm is a Liberian national and a resident of Washington, DC when this article was written. He received his BA in International Affairs from Florida State University in Tallahassee and earned am MA in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC in 2004. When this article was written in 2015, Mainlehwon was (an currently is) a Ph.D. student at the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University, Virginia.