Advancing Educational Equity
Intersectional Approches. Education Diplomacy. Gender Equity.
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U.S. Africa Institute is a 501(c) (3) international non-profit organization established to promoting access to education, advancing gender equity, and facilitating strategic partnerships between the United States of America and Africa through education partnership and citizen diplomacy.
We work with civil societies, academic institutions, U.S. government agencies, American and African institutions to leverage the power of global education and citizen diplomacy to promote access to education, advance gender equity, and foster a mutually beneficial and meaningful strategic partnership between the U.S. and on the continent of Africa.
Our Impact
US Africa Institute works with a historically marginalized and disadvantaged group of students in secondary and post-secondary education across intersectional identities, including disability status, sexual orientations, gender, refugee status, geographical locations, ethnic and tribal minorities, rural areas, and other vulnerable groups of students in Sub Saharan Africa countries to address educational inequities and disparities.
Why In Sub-Saharan Africa
Today, more than 100 million women and girls, students with disabilities and other marginalized groups of students are out of secondary and post-secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa. Of the more than 100 million, nearly 52 million are women and girls, with 39 million of them out of higher education, undermining their rights and limiting their opportunities. In sub-Saharan Africa countries, Students with disabilities, women and girls, and rural students face cultural, economic, and social barriers from within and outside the education system that directly or indirectly impact their ability to get a high-quality education.
Our Innovative Approach
US Africa Institute designs & implements hybrid, innovative, gender-informed, disability-inclusive education support programs & targeted intervention approaches to address institutionalized gender inequality, & meet the learning needs of students with disabilities, ethnic minority students & other vulnerable groups of students in sub-Saharan Africa.
US Africa Institute employs hybrid learning support approaches & implement Culturally Competent Interventional Programs (CCIP) to empowering women & girls, students with disabilities & other group of students through Integrated Virtual Learning Support (IVLS) embracing online education support as a strategic approach to be able to address education inequities through intersectional lenses, and intentionally implementing interventional programs designed to ending child marriage, empowering girls & women, & mobilize the diaspora through Citizen and Education Diplomacy (CED) to address educational inequity in Africa.
Leadership and Board Members
Dr. Tadios Belay
Founder & President,(BoD)
Solomon Belette, MBA
Executive Director
H.E. Lilian Riziq
Executive Board Member
Dr. Erroll Southers
Jocelyn Duarte
Dr. Jamie Lee
Dr. Michele G. Turner
Dr. Mary Anna Noveck
Dr. Timothy Smith
Dr. Jesse Mills
Dr. Lee Cenquizca
