People

Collage of different artifacts the team has seen throughout the project.

Participants
from the 2009 Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Award

WF Santiago-Valles, Project Director

Associate Professor in the Africana Studies Department at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Yvette D. Hyter, Project Co-Director

Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Ryan Bailey

English Teacher
Kalamazoo (MI) Public Schools

Joy Bailey

Photo of Joy Bailey. Instructor, Western Michigan University
Consultant, Kalamazoo (MI) Public Schools

Charmane Echols, Ed.D.

Kalamazoo Public Schools
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Jen Heymoss

9th Grade English Teacher
Kalamazoo (MI) Public Schools

Deborah Jackson

Art Curriculum and Math Department Chair
Kalamazoo (MI) Public Schools

Katie Smoes, M. A., CCC-CFY

Speech-Language Pathologist
Coopersville (MI) Public Schools

Sarah Summy, Ed.D.

Associate Professor of Special Education
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI

Mike Ruddy

Social Studies and History
The Roeper School
Birmingham, MI

Korin Visocchi

History
Academy of the Sacred Heart
Bloomfield Hills, MI

Michigan Participants
& Senegalese Counterparts
from the 2003 Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Award

WF Santiago-Valles, Project Director

Associate Professor in the Africana Studies Department at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Ibrahima Thioub

Chair of the History Department, Cheikh Anta Diop University [CADU], Dakar, Senegal. Graduate of University of Paris, VII with a concentration of African Modern History.

Yvette D. Hyter, Project Co-Director

Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Lamine Kane

A Senegalese Consultant, Educational sociologist having a post-graduate diploma in Education (adult education and community development) from the University of Manchester in England.