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BIOGRAPHYDr. Fenny Braide Dr. Fenny Braide

Dr. Fenny Fenibo Braide was born in Buguma, Nigeria. He attended Kalabari National College, Buguma and passed with grade two in 1978 before proceeding to City Tutorial College, London in 1982.

After graduating from high school he worked for the Rivers state government as an accounts clerk in the Governor's office for two years. Dr. Fenibo Braide studied Portuguese and Sociology at the Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil, and later became a Diplomat in "Charge D' Affairs" and Security of the Nigerian Embassy in Brazil. He writes and speaks Portuguese. In 1988 he represented Nigeria at the World Trade Forum in Rio de Janeiro. While in Brazil, he supervised building of the permanent site of Nigeria Embassy as well as its official and residential quarters in Lago-sul, Brasilia.

In 1989 Dr. Fenibo Braide relocated to the United States as a contractual employee for the United States Air Force, Warner Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. He later sat and passed the US Federal civil service exam and worked five years as a letter carrier and transitional postal inspector for the United States Postal Service in Philadelphia before proceeding to graduate school.

Dr. Braide is a resident of the city of brotherly love (Philadelphia) for more than twenty years. He was a certified safety and driver instructor for American Automobile Association (AAA), a behavior specialist and evidence-based research trainer in Dementia-Alzheimer's disease and preceptor Lincoln university graduate programs.

In 2010, he was conferred Justice of the Peace (JP) by the government, Rivers state judiciary, Nigeria. Since then, Dr. Braide has been specially invited and participated twice at the United Nations African Business summit in New York.

He is a licensed psychotherapist with over fifteen years experience in diagnostic and medication management in mental illness. He has participated in research investigations of the psychopathology of depression, suicide, anxiety disorders, panic disorders, alcoholism, drug abuse, bipolar, schizophrenia and personality disorders. Dr. Fenny Fenibo Braide is a graduate of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania and had his post graduate studies in human development at Walden, Indiana University and the University of Southern Minnesota. He is listed in the 2007-2008 edition of “Who is Who” in the field of social services in America.

Dr. Braide has been a member or consultant and served as a board of many organizations. He has written a comprehensive research studies on "Therapeutic intervention to violent behavior in foster homes" institutionalized in the city of Philadelphia in 2002. Dr. Fenibo Braide has also lectured and published numerous articles on the web. Some of his write-ups and publications has featured and viewed in professional journals and magazines. He is currently a consultant and psychotherapist and clinical administrator at the Behavioral Health Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.