Lila Engberg
Through the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), where She was the first female board member, Lila Engberg, 1949 BSc(HEc), has devoted herself to working with women and families in Africa, South America, and Eastern Europe.Retired from a faculty position with the College of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Guelph, since 1981, she has used her expertise to help women and girls develop their own goals and identify the steps necessary to realize these goals.
Dr Engberg was the driving force behind the Home Economics Association of Africa. She has spent many years in Africa, sometimes working at the grass-roots level on simple agricultural and homemaking projects and sometimes working at the university level, training African home economists to work with their own people. In recognition of her contributions, Dr Engberg has received awards from both the Canadian Home Economics Association and the Ghana Home Science Association.
She has endowed the Engberg Graduate Scholarship in International Home Economics at the University of Alberta. In 1997, she received the distinguished service award of the International Federation of Home Economics.
Dr Engberg is a 1997 recipient of the University of Alberta Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumni Award.