Maria Nhambu-educator, dancer, writer, mother, entrepreneur, and philanthropist-was raised by German missionary nuns in an orphanage for mixed-race children high in the Usambara Mo...view moreMaria Nhambu-educator, dancer, writer, mother, entrepreneur, and philanthropist-was raised by German missionary nuns in an orphanage for mixed-race children high in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. A twenty-three-year-old American woman adopted her at age nineteen and brought her to America for college. Nhambu is the creator of Aerobics With Soul®-the African Workout based on the dances she learned growing up in Tanzania. She prefers to be known simply as "Nhambu," which means "one who connects" or "bridge person." She is the mother of two, grandmother of three, and lives in Delray Beach, Florida, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.view less