In December 2009, she earned her doctorate from Western Michigan University her thesis looked at HIV/AIDS prevention programs for women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa. After she earned each degree, she returned to Zimbabwe, unearthed her tin and checked off each goal she accomplished, one by one. She has since remarried, to Mark Trent, a plant pathologist whom she met at Oklahoma State University. In 2003 Trent earned her master's degree, and her husband was deported for abuse. Three years later, she earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural education. In 1998, she moved to Oklahoma with her husband and their five children. Encouraged by her mother, Trent wrote down these dreams, put the paper in a scrap of tin, and buried it. Trent said she wanted to go to America and get a bachelor's degree, a master's, and eventually a PhD. In 1991, Jo Luck from Heifer International visited her village and asked every woman about her greatest dream. Her husband beat her for wanting an education. She had three children by age 18 and without a high school diploma. She then attended school for a short period, but her father accepted a brideprice of a cow and married her off young. When her teacher discovered this (because the homework was done so much better than the work her brother did at school) he begged Trent's father to allow her to attend school. The girls will get married.'' She taught herself to read and write from her brother's books, and eventually started doing her brother's homework. She later recalled the men in the village including her father 'pointing to the boys in the village and saying 'These are the breadwinners of tomorrow. She was not allowed to go to her local school, Matau Primary School, as a child due to poverty as well as being female, although her brother Tinashe, an indifferent student, was given the opportunity to attend. Trent was born in the village of Zvipani in Karoi District, Mashonaland West Province. Zandi Finds Ubuntu, The girl who buried her dreams in a can and Sacred Promise. She was featured in the book Half the Sky and has published several books of her own including The Awakened Woman, A Guide for Remembering & Igniting Your Sacred Dreams. 1965) is a Zimbabwean-American woman whose unlikely educational success, having earned a doctorate despite being unable to go to school, has brought her international fame.

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