# Trudy Morgan

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{{short description|Sierra Leonean civil engineer}}
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| name         = Trudy Morgan
| birth_date   = {{birth year and age|1966}}
| birth_place  = [Liverpool](/source/Liverpool), England, UK
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'''Trudy Morgan''' (born 1966) is a [civil engineer](/source/civil_engineer) of [Sierra Leone](/source/Sierra_Leone) heritage. She is the first African woman to be awarded a fellowship of the [Institution of Civil Engineers](/source/Institution_of_Civil_Engineers) (FICE), and, after becoming the first female vice president of the Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers, served two terms as president.

== Early life ==
Born to [Sierra Leone Creole](/source/Sierra_Leone_Creole) parents in Liverpool, United Kingdom, Morgan and her family moved back to Sierra Leone where she studied civil engineering<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Kanyanga Kamwi |first=Ruth |date=18 April 2019 |title=Women In Stem: Trudy Morgan, the first African Woman fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers of the UK. |url=https://www.swenga.org/technology-and-science/women-in-stem-trudy-morgan-the-first-african-woman-fellow-of-the-institution-of-civil-engineers-of-the-uk-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022175934/https://swenga.org/technology-and-science/women-in-stem-trudy-morgan-the-first-african-woman-fellow-of-the-institution-of-civil-engineers-of-the-uk-29 |archive-date=22 October 2019 |access-date=2019-10-22 |website=Swenga |language=en-US}}</ref> at the [University of Sierra Leone](/source/University_of_Sierra_Leone) before earning an MBA at [Cranfield School of Management](/source/Cranfield_School_of_Management).<ref name=Goba>{{cite news |last1=Goba |first1=Kadia |title=Sierra Leone: Women of the Mountain |url=https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/sierra-leone-women-mountain |access-date=22 July 2024 |work=Pacific Standard |date=3 October 2018}}</ref>

== Career ==
In 2015, Morgan co-founded the non-profit Sierra Leone Women Engineers, to support women in engineering.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.slwe.org.sl/about/|title=About – Sierra Leone Women Engineers|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-22}}</ref> In 2018, Morgan supported a [United Nations Office of Project Services](/source/United_Nations_Office_of_Project_Services) (UNOPS) project to stabilise the slopes of [Sugar Loaf](/source/Sugar_Loaf_(Freetown)) mountain, near [Regent](/source/Regent%2C_Sierra_Leone) six miles from [Freetown](/source/Freetown), following the [2017 Sierra Leone mudslides](/source/2017_Sierra_Leone_mudslides).<ref name=Goba/>

Morgan is also the program director for Hilton [Freetown](/source/Freetown) Cape Sierra Hotel, a member of the Professional Engineers Review Council and the UK's Institution of Civil Engineers international representative to Sierra Leone.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.insight.sl/single-post/2018/12/27/SIERRA-LEONE%E2%80%99S-TRUDY-MORGAN-MAKES-HISTORY-BY-BECOMING-THE-INSTITUTION-OF-CIVIL-ENGINEERS%E2%80%99-ICE-1ST-FEMALE-FELLOW-IN-AFRICA|title=Sierra Leone's Trudy Morgan Makes History by Becoming the Institution of Civil Engineers' (ICE) 1st Female Fellow in Africa|website=insightmedia|language=en|access-date=2019-10-22}}</ref> From 2020 to 2024, she served two terms as president of the Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Thomas |first=Abdul Rashid |date=2024-06-26 |title=Ing. Trudy Morgan: A leader who transformed Sierra Leone’s engineering landscape |url=https://www.thesierraleonetelegraph.com/ing-trudy-morgan-a-leader-who-transformed-sierra-leones-engineering-landscape/ |access-date=2024-07-22 |website=The Sierra Leone Telegraph |language=en-US}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[https://www.ice.org.uk/my-ice/my-membership/fellowship Fellowship of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE)]
*[http://slie-sl.org/?page_id=874 Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers]

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