• Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Michigan
• M.S. in Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University
• M.S. in Social research/Community Organization, Columbia University
• B.A. in Sociology, University of Washington
  

Dr. Zwede has taught in various universities in Africa and the United States of America. Her current teaching and research at Howard University includes:

• Rural Development in Africa;
• Education and Social Change;
• Women and African Development;
• Ethnicity and African Development

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• “The New Immigrants in the Washington, DC Area: Institutional Processes and Problems,” Journal of Third World Spectrum, Vol. 5, No., 2 (1998), pp. 87-104

• “Public Priorities, Policy Choices and Necessary Conditions for Development in Ethiopia”
• “The Chilalo Agricultural Development Unit as a Strategy for Rural Transformation”

• “Women’s Self Perception as a Factor in their Career and Educational Status: Research from the Addis Ababa University Community (Research Sponsored by the Ford Foundation)
• “The Role of Government in the Advancement of Women” (commissioned by the Center for Public Enterprises in Developing Countries [ICPE])
• Consulted with the United nations Development Program, the International Labor Organization, the Center for Public Enterprises in Developing Countries, the Academy for Educational Development
• Currently developing teaching materials for “native language” education and related programs of cultural transition for recent immigrant youth in the Washington Metropolitan Area through faith-based institutions
• Currently working on Inter-University Collaborative Initiative on African Women