Yekatit graduated from Addis Ababa University with a B.A. in Linguistics. In 2015, she received her M.A. in Anthropology from the same university. Her M.A. thesis, with the title of ‘Muslim Women and the Competing Islamic Models of Piety’, explores the gender dynamics among the local reformist trends of Islam in Southern Ethiopia. Her current interest include: Islam in Ethiopia, Muslim women’s role and position in the political and religious dynamics, religious socialization, and Muslim women & Islamic Medicine.