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Harriet Ljungkvist Bagdade grew up in Alingsås, a small town close to Göteborg on the west coast of Sweden. With degrees in Sociology and Business from University of Göteborg, Harriet’s professional life started out in Preventive Health Care in Sweden. To further this path she later went to Seattle to pursue graduate studies at School for Public Health and Community Medicine at University of Washington. Harriet’s career plans changed when she married an American man and immigrated to the US. Through various employments and in different cities (Seattle, Chicago and now Eugene) she has been active in the Scandinavian community and always enjoyed teaching Swedish. During the last five years Harriet has been a part-time instructor at Department of German and Scandinavian at the University of Oregon. |
