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Kwado Gyase Social Studies Teacher, Twi Instructor, Writer, Researcher and Facilitator in Training for AYA Warriors and Healers Personal and Leadership development program.
Kwado is also a Masters-
He has traveled to Ghana extensively, studying our language and culture.
Kwadwo has taught in the Atlanta Public schools and has taught Social studies for AYA’s Middle to High school students. He also currently teaches Social Studies at Nsoromma School in Atlanta.
Omidara Akinsegun, Math and Science Teacher, brings joy and excitement to every conversation
about mathematics and science. She was motivated at an early age by the following
words by Dr. John H. Clarke:
“I think every person that calls themselves a leader,
a preacher, a policy maker of any kind should ask and answer the question in his
own life time:
• How will my people stay on this earth?
• How will they be fed?
• How will they be educated?
• How will they be housed?
• How will they be defended?
The answer to these questions will create the concept of enduring nationhood because it creates the concept of enduring responsibility. I am saying what ever the solution is, either we are in charge of our own destiny or we are not in charge. On that point we got to be clear, you either free or you a slave.”
As a mechanical engineering student, she tutored children and classmates, and has always felt the calling to teach. As a parent, she has always remained an active part of her children's education by teaching science to them and their classmates. Her goal is to see African children reconnect with the mathematics that are in their genes and with their innate understanding of the world around them. She has remained connected to the African Independent School movement since her teens and seeks to improve our mastery of science and math overall while remaining guided by our ancestors and rooted in the African history that has brought us thus far.
She holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from Florida A&M University. She considers herself a lifelong student and looks forward to learning along side our brilliant children.
Omidara Akinsegun
(AKA) Stephanie Burrs
stephanie.l.burrs@ayaed.com
Kwabena Ofosuhene -
Baba Kwabena brings a strong foundation in African history and culture to AYA. While a student at Morehouse College, he spent a year studying at the University of Ghana in Legon.
Upon returning from Ghana, he completed his degree in African American studies. After graduation, Kwabena taught elementary school in the Atlanta Public Schools through the Teach for America Program.
Kwabena is fluent in the Twi language, the language of the Ashanti people from Ghana, and teaches that language and will be integrating that language as he teaches AYA students.
His interests in martial arts, especially capoeria and kali, are personal as well as professional. He is interested in capoeria’s impact on children's learning.
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Afia Bediako: Theatre Arts instructor.
Afia Bediako is an intense educator, with the ability to motivate students to appreciate the arts and achieve their potential. An actress with over ten years of directing experience at the middle and high school level.
Trained as an actress and community activist in Los Angeles California. Afia has worked closely with professional artists and has studied theater, at the California State University Dominguez Hills, Marla Gibbs' Crossroads Arts Academy, and the Kilpatrick Cambridge School of theater arts and more.
Most of her studies have taken place in the heart of South Central Los Angeles. This
is where she realized that art must be used as a tool of liberation and re-
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Adwoa Yinka:
Reading Specialist
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