New York African Studies Association

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Dr. Susan Castillo-Rodríguez
President

Ph.D., Hispanic Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2013.

Ph.D., Social Anthropology, Complutense University, Madrid, 2000.

B.A., Sociology, Complutense University, Madrid, 1992.

Remi

Dr. Remi Alapo
Vice President

Dr. Alapo currently serves as an Adjunct Professor within the City University of New York (CUNY) system and as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Africana and Latinx Studies Department at SUNY Oneonta, and a Visiting Scholar at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile – Ife, Nigeria. She teaches across the Humanities and Social Sciences. Her teaching and scholarship focus on Africa and the African Diaspora, migration and displacement, race and ethnicity, gender and leadership, global cultures, and social justice.

Blessing Ntamu

Dr. Blessing Ntamu
Secretary

He is a Senior Lecturer and the Head, External Relations; Employment Relations and Partnerships at the University of Calabar, Nigeria.

Guillaume Yoboué

Dr. Guillaume Semon Yoboué
Treasurer

Joseph C. Wilson Foundation Academy

Dr. Yoboué teaches French, Kiswahili, and African Culture.