Sandra Ankobiah with K.T. McFarland, the Deputy National Security Adviser for Donald Trump
Ghanaian celebrity lawyer, Sandra Ankobiah, visited the White House, the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States, located in Washington and met some top officials of President Donald Trump’s administration.
The beautiful lawyer and entrepreneur is in the USA to participate in the 2017 edition of Fortune-U.S. Department of State Global Women’s Mentoring Programme.
The programme provides participants with unique opportunities to develop their management and business skills while gaining experience in the US business and non-profit environment.
Sandra completed the one week orientation programme, where she attended leadership workshops and other business organisations and development skills.
She also got the opportunity to go to the White House and met two of Donald Trump’s Deputy National Security Advisers; K.T. McFarland and Dina Habib Powell.
She also met Ivanka Trump who doubles as US president’s daughter and assistant, as well as meeting Kellyanne Conway, who is also the counsellor to President Trump, and Melanie Trump’s Chief of Staff.
She also had dinner and spent time with some of Fortune’s most powerful women. She got the chance to engage with the Head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde.
Sandra is currently in Philadelphia to work with her mentor, Jami Wintz Mckeonat, her company Morgan Lewis & Bockius for the next two weeks.
Jami Wintz Mckeon is the first female chairperson of the firm which is the largest in America and one of the five largest firms in the world.
Sandra Ankobiah was chosen from Ghana by the US Embassy to participate in the Fortune-US Department of State Global Women’s Mentoring Programme. She is a lawyer, entrepreneur and a philanthropist. She studied International and Commercial Law, specialising in World Trade, from the University of Buckingham (LLB, LLM) between 2005 and 2009. She returned to Ghana and studied at the Ghana School of Law from 2010 to 2012.