Tererai Trent (born c. 1965)[1] is a Zimbabwean-American woman whose unlikely educational success has brought her international fame.
[7] Encouraged by her mother, Trent wrote down these dreams, put the paper in a scrap of tin, and buried it.
[8] In December 2009, she earned her doctorate from Western Michigan University; her thesis looked at HIV/AIDS prevention programs for women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa.
[2] Oprah sent a crew with Trent back to Zimbabwe to dig up the piece of tin in which she had buried the paper with her goals.
In 2015, Trent published a children's book about her own life, called The Girl who Buried her Dreams in a Can, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.
[13] Her 2017 self-help book, The Awakened Woman: Remembering & Igniting Our Sacred Dreams, with a foreword by Oprah Winfrey, was named the Outstanding Literary Work, Instructional at the 49th NAACP Image Awards.