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Program
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Tania Magoon recently completed
her first year student at Albany Law School. She received
her A.M. from Harvard University in Chemistry in 2003, and
her B.S., B.A. from Union College in 2001. Tania has tutored
elementary school children and tutored students in chemistry
and classical Greek. She received two Distinction in Teaching
Awards from Harvard College where she taught undergraduate
organic chemistry courses.
Through her experience, Ms. Magoon recognizes that the most
important tools for individual success are education and access
to information. Being of Indian descent, she appreciates the
immense role her cultural heritage has played in shaping her
life and pursuits. Through Zamani Foundation Tania hopes to
ensure that all individuals, especially children, have the
access to the resources they need to succeed. Moreover, Tania
is dedicated to ensuring that individuals are completely engaged
in their own development, specifically in cultivating the
treasure that is in their own cultural heritage because the
integrity of self-identity is indeed precious, especially
in this age of globalization.
Tania is a Program Director and Legal Analyst for Zamani
Foundation and an important critical voice in the development
and execution of the organization's program. |
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Policy Advisor |
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Ijeoma Nwachukwu is currently a PhD student at Harvard Law School. Previously she worked as a journalist and documentary film producer at Channels Television and the Civil Liberties Organization Nigeria. She attended the Nigeria Law School, Abuja, where she was called to the Bar in 2000 and received a Masters in Law Degree (LL.M) at Harvard Law School.
Ijeoma was awarded the Landon H. Gammon prize for academic excellence as well as the Harvard Human Rights Program Fellowship. She works extensively in youth programs both in Nigeria and the United States. |
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Executive
Director |
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Adoyo Owuor is
the Founder and Executive Director of Zamani Foundation. She received her BA from the University of California, Davis where she concentrated on Italian Literature, Music Composition and Art.
Adoyo has worked as a High School teacher of Music and a
volunteer Math and Reading tutor. She also served as a volunteer
caregiver at the Whitman Walker Clinic's Hospice for patients
living with AIDS in Washington D.C.
Adoyo is a PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and her dissertation in on the design and structure of Dante Alighieri's Commedia. She is currently a Teaching Fellow in both Romance Languages and Literatures and the Undergraduate Core Curriculum and a Non-Resident Tutor at Elliot House. |
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Publishing |
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Zoe Trodd teaches in the History and Literature department at Harvard University. She has degrees from Cambridge University and Harvard, and came to America in 2001 on a Kennedy Scholarship from the UK.
She has published the books Meteor of War: The John Brown Story (with John Stauffer) in 2004 and American Protest Literature (Harvard University Press, 2006). She has also published numerous articles on American history, literature and visual culture, including on slave narratives, Native American autobiography and the Harlem Renaissance, and has won several prizes for her writing and teaching. She's currently working on a new book, called To Plead Our Own Cause: New Slave Narratives in the Global Economy, due out with Cornell University Press next year.
Zoe is a dynamic lecturer and inspiring teacher. For several years she has lectured for the popular Harvard course "American Protest Literature: From Tom Paine to Tupac," which boasted an enrollment of 300 students in 2005. She also spent a year teaching in China (Chengdu). She sits on the American Studies Association national committee, works as a research associate for Free the Slaves and at the Antislavery Literature Project, and as a graduate student served as president of Harvard's Graduate Student Council. |
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Business
Strategy & Development |
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Onche Rajesh Ugbabe is presently a consultant with McKinsey and Company, Atlanta. He received his MBA at the Harvard Business School. A Senior Fellow and cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, his previous work experience includes stints at Morgan Stanley and Prudential Securities (investment banking) as well as for Sony Music Entertainment Inc. and The Lake Placid Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
The Director of Business Development at AfriOne, Mr. Ugbabe has extensive experience in new business building, telecommunications, and finance and as a consultant served a variety of corporations in the United States, Europe, and Africa.
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