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Paula Kantor

Paula L. Kantor (May 7, 1969 - May 13, 2015) was a gender and economic development specialist who was killed in the 2015 Park Palace guesthouse attack.

Kantor had been working for the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, as a Senior Scientist in Development and Gender at the time of the attack. She was leading a project to improve the livelihoods of people living in wheat-growing areas of Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Pakistan. Prior to that position she was the senior gender scientist at WorldFish from 2012 through 2015. As part of that work, she trained and assisted NGOs in delivering gender programming to women fish retailers in Egypt. Kantor was the director of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) from 2008 through 2010. Provided by Wikipedia