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Kenneth Toah Nsah, popularly known under the pen name Nsah Mala, is a poet, writer, children's author, English<>French translator, teacher of English and French, and comparative cultural and literary scholar. In 2022, he earned a PhD in Comparative Literature focusing on environmental literatures of the Congo Basin at Aarhus University in Denmark. His expertise and research interests are wide-ranging and include: ecocriticism and environmental humanities; blue and energy humanities; education for sustainable development; the role of literature in tackling global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation, especially in the Congo Basin and Africa; indigenous peoples and indigenous knowledge systems; Anglophone and Francophone African literatures; comparative cultural and literary studies; diaspora literatures and migration; minority literatures; environmental communication; the use of ICTs in education in developing countries; and creative writing; among others. He is also experienced in copyediting and proofreading. He counts numerous academic and literary publications in English and French. He has also studied literatures and languages at the Universities of Yaoundé 1 (Cameroon), Perpignan (France), St Andrews (UK), Santiago de Compostela (Spain), and the United Nations System Staff College - UNSSC (Germany). He trained as a teacher of English and French at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Yaoundé (Cameroon) and has certificates in the use ICTs in teaching and global diplomacy from the University of Oregon (US) and SOAS University of London (UK) respectively. He has taken journalism courses from Reuters, Thomson Foundation and the YALI network.
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I am Daniel Henry Smith from Liberia, West Africa. I am the founding executive director of the Teaching and Learning Center at the University of Liberia. I am also a PhD candidate in Education at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education. As a teenager, I experienced Liberia's civil war and escaped on foot to Guinea where I was educated in a school organized by the International Rescue Committee (IRC). I went on to complete my studies at the University of Liberia where I was the student president. My academic research focuses on the extent to which international intervention in educational development in Liberia fosters or hinders innovation among Liberian educators and has implications for the effective collaboration between international organizations and local stakeholders in educational development.
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Swiss Parliamentarian. Fem-Artivist.
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Dr. Jared O. Bell is a post-conflict development expert with extensive experience in designing and managing international human rights, democratization, and rule of law and justice sector programs. A prolific writer, Dr. Bell has published numerous articles on human rights, transitional justice, reconciliation and peace building, and is the author of the book “Frozen Justice: Lessons from Bosnia Herzegovina's Failed Transitional Justice Strategy” published with Vernon Press in 2018.
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Ana Paula Barreto (she/hers) is the Director of Transnational Birth Equity at the National Birth Equity Collaborative. She has a master's of Arts in International affairs and is a fellow of the United Nations Fellowship Program for People of African descent. Ana is a researcher on global health, race and inequalities with a special focus on women and girls.
Ana has more than fifteen years of experience as a human rights professional, working in several counties of the Americas and Africa, doing innovative work on global health and reproductive justice. In 2018, she developed a project analyzing the intersection between economic empowerment and health outcomes of women and children in Ethiopia as well as the first “Black Brazilian Film Festival” in the African continent.
She is also the co-founder of Projeto 111, a project that teaches young people in the favelas of Brazil how to use media tools to tell their own stories and disrupt police brutality through storytelling.
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Mr. Sapp is CEO of an NGO in Consultative Status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Our objective, the return and resettlement of descendants of enslaved Africans in the USA.
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Governments are responsible for two critical issues here - countering of international organized crime and protecting societies most vunerable members, especially children and young persons. Some goverñments and organizations provide excellent examples of responsible action already underway.
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Phillip leads IAYG, a not-for-profit group focused on geographic and civic education. IAYG develops student programmes and competitions in geographic & global education. Learn more at iaygfamily.org.
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Emmanuel is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He recently received his dual doctorate degrees from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK and the University of Naples, Federico II, Italy. He was a Marie-curie Early Stage Researcher with research topic in the area of Bio-geotechnical Engineering.
Emmanuel's background is in Agricultural and Environmental Engineering and his current research focus is in the development of microbial-based technologies for soil Improvement as low-carbon options for erosion mitigation, slope stabilisation and to delay the onset of shallow landslides.
Emmanuel has been an academic staff in the department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Agriculture, Makurdi - Nigeria since 2012, rising from Graduate Assistant to the rank of Lecturer I, and involved in teaching, research and community service. He is knowledgeable in Environmental Impacts Assessment and enthusiastic about global governance and sustainable development.
Emmanuel is active in research and research dissemination, with a growing research portfolio of publications, contributions to specialist research community, interdisciplinary research management, conference presentations as well as serving as peer reviewer for several top journals.
He has had previous experience in broadcasting (as TV/Radio presenter) and webcasting, having worked with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA Yenagoa) and the Confluence Cable Network (CCN, Kogi State, Nigeria) as well as the University of Strathclyde Student internet radio 'Strathclyde Fusion'.
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Dr. Wilson is an Assistant Professor at North Carolina Central University, a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist (LCAS) and was Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the State of North Carolina. She is currently LCSW in the state of Florida. Her direct practice includes providing mental health and substance abuse therapy to individuals, groups, and families. She has experience working at a university student health center, university counseling center, private practice, and in community mental health agencies.