Mindy Budgor is an American businesswoman and the author of ''Warrior Princess: My Quest to Become the First Female Maasai Warrior''.

Biography

Budgor is a 2012 graduate of the

University of Chicago Booth School of Business The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (branded as Chicago Booth) is the graduate business school of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1898, Chicago Booth is the second-oldest ...

. She started her first company while an undergraduate at the

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. At age 27, before starting her Chicago course, she spent three months on charity work at the

Masai Mara National Reserve Maasai Mara, sometimes also spelt Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok County, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people, the ...

, Kenya. While there, she claims to have become the first female

Maasai Maasai may refer to: *Maasai people *Maasai language *Maasai mythology * MAASAI (band) See also * Masai (disambiguation) Masai may refer to: *Masai, Johor, a town in Malaysia * Masai Plateau, a plateau in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India *Maasai peopl ...

warrior, which women had traditionally not been allowed to do. Budgor published a memoir titled ''Warrior Princess: My Quest to Become the First Female Maasai Warrior'' (2013).

Controversy

Budgor has received criticism for her claim to have become the first female Maasai warrior. The critics write that her book simplifies the Maasai culture and trivializes the process of becoming a Maasai warrior. Becoming a Maasai warrior is a process that takes an average of 15 years, but Budgor writes that she completed the process in three months.

References

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