Advisory Board

National Advisory Board

Akintunde Akinyemi
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
University of Florida

Audrey Mbeje
Penn Language Center
University of Pennsylvania

Kathrina Thompson
Department of African Cultural Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Richard Brecht
American Councils Research Center

Charles M. Bwenge
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
University of Florida 

Peter Ojiambo
Department of African and African American Studies
The University of Kansas

William P. Rivers
Principal, WP Rivers & Associates
Co-founder, Center for Advanced Study of Language
The University of Maryland

Local Advisory Board

Beth Lewis Samuelson 
Director, African Studies Program

John Hanson
Professor, African Studies Program

Martha Nyikos
Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
School of Education

Iman Alramadan
Faculty, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies

Kathleen Evans
Director, Language Workshop

Xiaojing Kou
Director, Center for Language Technology