Educational Administration and Management
SPECIALIZATION-International Development: Advocacy, Capacity Building, Communications, Education and Health
(USAID, IFESH, EU EDU-LINK, Governments, Ministries and NGOs)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: USA, US VIRGIN ISLANDS AND AFRICA
Selected Communications/International Development Work Blogs/Social Media
Sojourns
Ethiopia
African Midwives
More Sojourns
Youth Development in Liberia
Sandra in Ethiopia, Part 1
Second Ethiopian Tour of Duty
Black History Month 2012
Habari Gani
eBlogger Blog List
Chief Operating Officer, Gambia Mbootaay Empowerment Projects, Banjul, 2023-Present
Volunteer, World Conference of Mayors, Tuskegee, AL, 2023-Present
Kansas City Public Schools: Success Academy, Paseo Academy for the Performing Arts, and Adult Education and Literacy Program, 2015-2022
Education Strategy Center, Ministry of Education, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2014-2015
Conference of Principals of College of Education, Ghana, and the Addis Ababa Association of Private Schools, Ethiopia, 2013-2018
Hawassa College of Teacher Education, and its English Language Improvement Center and English Clubs at Adare Elementary School and Tabor Elementary School,
and the Association of Education and Training Services for Persons with Disabilities, and Shashamene School for the Blind, 2012-2015
Assistant Director, Virgin Islands University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (VIUCEDD), University of the Virgin Islands, 2009-2012
USA/African Midwives Exchange, International Center for Traditional Childbearing, 2010-2012, Ghana
ProCredit Bankers Academy - English Course February-April 2007, Kokomlemle-Accra, Ghana
Founding Director of Education and Health Development Trust, and
Girl-Child International, Ghana-Registered NGOs
US Charitable Organization 501(C)(3) status pending
Ghana: Peki Union Villages; Rural Media Network (RUMNET), Tamale;
OLA Teacher Training College, Cape Coast; Kpandai Villages;
and proposed Green Zone Recycling Centers of Ghana
Overseas Processing Entity/Church World Service
US Embassy Office of the Refugee Coordinator
Liberians At-Risk Program (Refugee USA Resettlement), Accra, Ghana,
and Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, Accra Circuit Rides, 2003-2004
USAID/IFESH Teachers for Africa Program
USAID/IFESH American Educators for Africa
Hawassa, Ethiopia
Hawassa College of Teacher Education (2012-2013)
Axum, Ethiopia (2009)
Aksum University, Tigray Region
Cape Coast, Ghana (2002-2003)
Our Lady of Apostles Teacher Training College
Nyame Bekyere Village, since 2003
Gonjaland Youth Congress, since 2005, Salaga
Libreville, Gabon (1994-95)
Lycee Professional Commercial
COMMUNICATIONS, JOURNALISM AND PUBLIC RELATIONS EXPERTISE
International Centre for the Advancement of Journalism, Accra, Ghana
Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio
Assistant Professor of Mass Communication, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg
Communications Director/Editor, Catholic Diocese of St. Thomas USVI
Journalism Program Head/Adjunct Instructor, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas
Kansas City CALL, Star and Times, Missouri
Radio-Broadcast Production Media Specialist/Consultant, Media Training for Peace Advocacy, "Uniting Communities to Mitigate Conflict in Somalia Program," Hargeisa, Somaliland, Puntland and Mogadishu, Somalia
USAID/International Research Exchange Board (IREX), 2010
Teaching/Research Assistant, University of Missouri School of Journalism
Black Studies Program/Campus Computing Center, Columbia
Tampa Tribune, Florida
Virgin Islands Daily News, St. Thomas
VI Census 2000 Media Manager and Community Outreach Specialist, U.S. Virgin Islands
CONSULTING
Sharon Consultative & Research Management, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 2009-Present
Ghana Telecom University College, Tesano-Accra, Ghana, 2008
Ghana Christian University College, Dodowa, Ghana, 2008
International Research Foundation / United Nations Association, National Capital Area (IRF-UNA/NCA) African Affairs Committee, 2007-2008
Regent University of Science and Technology, Accra,Ghana 2003-2004
VI Departments of Education and Special Education, US Virgin Islands, 2012, 2002
KC Black Expo Education Conference 1996
Samuel Rodgers Community Health Clinic, Kansas City, 1995
City of Cleveland, African Trade Investment Conference, 1991
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