Fanta Aw
Vice-President of Campus life.
American University
Fanta Aw has over 15 years of experience in the field of International Education Exchange. Ms. Aw was the Director of International Student Services at American University and Chair of the International Campus Life Council, whose mission is to foster intercultural awareness, understanding, and appreciation of diversity and to monitor administrative systems and services to ensure responsiveness to the needs of international students.
Fanta is originally from Mali, in West Africa and is fluent in English, French, and Bambara, and speaks Spanish well. She came to American University in 1987 to begin her undergraduate degree. She also received a Master’s in Public Administration with a focus on Organization and Development from American University. Ms. Aw is currently pursuing a PhD in Sociology with a concentration in Transmigrational Migration, Social Stratification and International Training and Education.
Dr. Kpakpundu Ezeze
Dr Ezeze is the founder and President of Future Quest, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in educational planning and college placement for high school students. Over the past thirty years Dr.Ezeze has developed a number of partnerships nationwide that have helped thousands of students to prepare for college. In the Washington, DC metropolitan area, these partnerships include Urban Alliance, College-Bound, The Ionia Whipper Home for Girls, the College Information Center at the Martin Luther King Memorial Library, Mentors, Inc, Jack & Jill, and Upward Bound Programs at Howard and Catholic Universities.
Before coming to Washington, Dr. Ezeze served as a college consultant to students in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Miami and Princeton, New Jersey. Some of his clients included The Boys Choir of Harlem, New Jersey Nets Basketball Academic Camp, Salomon Brothers, Inc, Prudential Securities Adopt-a-School Programs, I Have a Dream Foundation and The Ninety Second Street YMCA in New York. He is currently fulfilling his contract with Kaplan Educational Center’s Good Sports Program, headquartered in New York.
His professional career includes experience as a Guidance Counselor in three school systems: Lexington, MA, Wellesley, MA and Arlington, VA. He has served as Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania where he developed residential programs focusing on the needs of the first-year students. He was Associate Program Director with the College Board Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ. There he coordinated the design and development of pre-college educational software for use by secondary school students and served as the Associate Director of the Advanced Placement Program. Dr. Ezeze was an Academic Advisor at Wellesley College, Director for Upward Bound at Worcester College, and Admissions Associate for the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.
Ernest Kuetche.
Managing Director
Company: Societe Generale Investment Banking (New York)
School: Engineer from Ecole Centrale Paris, France. Also holds a post-graduate Diploma in Economics from La Sorbonne University, Paris, France
He lived in France for over 10 years where he made numerous contributions to social initiatives aimed at bringing young native African students or graduates together to build community networks and implement various community projects in France and abroad.
Are you willing to make a difference in your community?
The African Leadership Connection seeks a Community Representative to reach out to their respective communities and promote the work of ALC. This entails working with local universities, interacting with local professionals and organizations, and promoting ALC’s mentoring programs to potential mentors and mentees.
Major Responsibilities include:
Identifying potential participants in outreach workshops and implementing such workshop’s organization;
Initiating contact with local professional organizations, corporations, schools, other non profit organizations that may be interested in becoming partners of ALC;
Working closely with ALC’s office in Washington, DC.
The position would require approximately 5-10 hours of pro-bono work per month. Potential candidates should have:
Good inter-personal skills;
Ability to work flexible hours;
Strong communication and organizational skills;
Comfortable speaking to small and large groups; and
Ability to lead and motivate people.
If interested, please submit your resume and a cover letter to: alcrep@africanleadershipconnection.org
