Meskerem Assegued co-founded the Zoma Museum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with Elias Sime in 2002. She is a curator, anthropologist, and writer and a recipient of France’s Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She has curated numerous exhibitions in USA, Vernice, and Germany. Meskerem was a member of the selection committees for the 2004 Dak’Art Biennale and the 2007 Venice Biennale African Pavilion. During the last four years, she has been commissioned, with Elias Sime, to artistically landscape the Menilik’s Grand Palace or Unity Park and Zoma Village on Entoto Mountain in Addis Ababa. Currently, she is in the midst of conserving, restoring, and revitalizing the Sof Umar Cave in eastern Ethiopia, one of the longest caves in Africa.