In May 2011 , Oprah Winfrey revealed that Trent was her all-time favorite guest , and donated $ 1.5 million so Trent could build her own school in her old village in Zimbabwe . The school was completed in 2014 . In 2015 , Trent published a children 's book about her own life called '' The Girl who Buried her Dreams in a Can '' , illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist . Her 2017 self-help book , '' The Awakened Woman : Remembering & Igniting Our Sacred Dreams '' , with a foreword by Oprah Winfrey , was named the Outstanding Literary Work , Instructional at the 49th NAACP Image Awards . She has been an adjunct professor in Monitoring & Evaluation in Global Health at Drexel University since 2013
49th NAACP Image Awards
49th NAACP Image Awards
Tererai Trent