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Alphonsine Imaniraguha

Network Consulting Engineer

Advanced Services

Alphonsine Imaniraguha currently works as a Network Consulting Engineer in the Advanced Services Cloud & Network Services Team.

She is also the Founder and CEO of Rising Above the Storms, a non-profit organization with a vision to advocate for orphans in developing countries, and empower at-risk youth through education.

Alphonsine was born and raised in Rwanda. She moved to the United States in 2006 to pursue her Master’s Degree at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY.

Articles

June 18, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

How Cisco Employees Have Given Back to Me

Cisco employees share many similar qualities, but one that we all have is a road that led us to working for this wonderful company. Some have known and aspired to work for Cisco their entire life, while others (like myself) discovered Cisco during graduate school, and still there are some who never…

November 10, 2016

LIFE AT CISCO

7 Ways to Rise Above the Storm and Inspire Others

Hope. It’s my personal story. It might not seem that hope would come from such a thing, but at the age of 13, my parents and two of my siblings were mercilessly killed during the genocide in Rwanda. Perhaps hope comes because I miraculously survived, along with my three younger siblings who were al…