2010 Africana Leadership Institute - Institute Personnel

American Studies at the University of Kansas and the Interim Director of the Langston Hughes Center

Elizabeth Asiedu, Professor of Economics at the University of Kansas; visiting scholar at IMF Institute; vice president of African Finance Economic Association

Barbara Ballard, member of the Kansas State Legislature, and the Associate Director of the Dole Center of Politics at the University of Kansas

Derek Darby, Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Kansas

Mohamed A. El-Hodiri, Professor of Economics at the University of Kansas; former Economic Advisor to Russia

Myra Gordon, Associate Provost for Diversity and Dual Career Development at Kansas State University, Manhattan

Aminu Gusau, Program Director of the Africana Leadership Institute, University of Kansas

Lisa Hall, Institute Staff Administrator, University of Kansas      

Jane Irungu, Associate Director of the Kansas African Studies Center at the University of Kansas and former head of the Global Awareness Program at the Office of International Programs at the University of Kansas

Sonya Johnson, at the Kansas Attorney-General’s Office;
lecturer on legal issues and the African American, University of Kansas

Gilbert Karunga, Professor of Business, University of Kansas; research interest in accounting and information systems; business in Kenya; business in Africa

William B. Lacy, Director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas, and former presidential campaign manager

Beverly Mack, Professor of African and African-American Studies and a Courtesy Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas

Garth Myers, Professor of African and African-American Studies and Geography, and Director of the Kansas African Studies Center at the University of Kansas

Ralph Oliver, Chief of the KU Police force. He is head of the Office of Public Safety at the University of Kansas

Reginald L. Robinson, President and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents, which governs and coordinates Kansas State’s six universities, along with the state’s 19 community colleges, 10 technical colleges and schools, and one municipal university

Deanell Reece Tacha, Federal Judge of the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. She had also served as a Chief Judge

Omiunota Nelly Ukpokodu, Professor of Teacher Education, and Curriculum and Instructional Leadership at the University of Missouri in Kansas City

Peter Ukpokodu, Professor and Chair, African and African-American Studies, and Courtesy Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of Kansas

Carmaletta Williams, Professor of History and Executive Director of the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Johnson County Community College