Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Project Archivist, Harvard University

Riain Ross-Hager serves as the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Project Archivist at Harvard University Archives. In this role, Riain is responsible for processing over 50 cubic feet of documents that make up the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf personal archive. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s papers document her life and historic political career as President of Liberia and as Africa’s first democratically elected woman head of state, serving from 2006 to 2018.