Skills in Curriculum Development Successful in Program Monitoring and Evaluation Proven Effectiveness In Language Assessment/Evaluation Knowledge of “ACTFL” method of Language Assessment Experience in implementing Instructional /cultural programs
Work Experience
VISITING SCHOLAR /INSTRUCTOR: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PALO ALTO CALIFORNIA: 2001 to date
Stanford Language Center: Instructor in IGBO LANGUAGE
TRANSLATOR: Igbo Language , “LANGNET” PROJECT; University Of...
Aya de León continues the legacy of June Jordan as the Director of Poetry for the People, teaching poetry and spoken word. Kensington Books publishes her Justice Hustlers feminist heist novels, which have won first place International Latino Book Awards and Independent Publisher Awards. Her latest in the series is SIDE CHICK NATION the first novel published about Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. In 2021 Kensington will publish her first spy novel, about FBI infiltration of an African American eco-racial justice organization. Aya’s work has also appeared in Guernica, Writers Digest,...
Lecturer, and Language Assessment and Distant Language Coordinator
David Kyeu earned his Ph.D. in African Languages and Literature, and a minor in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also received a Master’s degree in Swahili studies and a Bachelor of education degree (Swahili and Mathematics) from Egerton University. His teaching and research interests are in academic writing, and in the broader issues of Swahili language and cultures, second language acquisition, applied linguistics, children’s literature, and language policy in education.
His doctoral dissertation “The Impact of Interactive Conversations...
Dr. Rickey Vincent is a scholar, educator, radio host and author. He obtained his Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley in 2008, and lectures on black music history, black power and social movements, the cultural politics of Hip Hop, and issues of African American culture and globalization.
He is the author of Funk: The Music, the People and the Rhythm of The One (St. Martin’s Press 1996), a definitive study of the culture and politics of funk music; and Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers’ Band, and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music (Lawrence...
