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 Enku Gelaye is Associate Dean of Student Affairs at UCLA. She was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and immigrated to United States at 7 years old and raised in the Southeast by Dr. Seyoum Gelaye – father and Aylech Boggale- mother and with sister, Mamar Gelaye and brother, Teddy Gelaye. Received B.S. in Journalism from the University of Tennessee and J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1997. Her professional experiences include, African Union (formerly Organization for African Unity), UCLA’s African Studies Department, Office for Student Judicial Affairs and Community Standards at USC. |
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 Dr. Karin J. Spencer has, since 1979, been an administrator at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. She currently is Dean of University Advisement, the senior member and leader of fourteen‑person professional advising staff providing comprehensive academic advisement and tutorial services to approximately 7,000 full-time undergraduate students. She also coordinates support services for students with disabilities. Dr. Spencer holds a Ph.D. in Educational Research from Hofstra University; an MA in Student Personnel Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University; and an AB in French from Mount Holyoke College. Dr. Spencer has a long-standing interest in and devotion to Ethiopia. |
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 Neal Sobania is the Executive Director of the Wang Center for International Programs and Professor of History at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA. As a teacher he has taught a wider range of courses in African history and African studies, and as an international educator has held many elected positions at both the regional and national level. He has been involved with Ethiopia for nearly forty years, first as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer and then a staff member. As an active scholar, his current research focuses on the visual traditions of Ethiopia, especially silver and gold-workers, and the place of contemporary traditional church painters in the teaching and sustaining of the Christian faith. He has also curated museum exhibitions related to Ethiopia to introduce Ethiopia to a broader audience. |
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