Board of Advisors
MHR is guided by a multidisciplinary Board of Advisors bringing expertise in history, law, education, design, and community leadership from across the world.
An innovative leader with 25 years in higher education, Dr. Bush has reimagined traditional institutional practices, improving student outcomes and reducing achievement gaps for historically marginalized populations. An innovative leader with 25 years in higher education — including 23 years in the California Community Colleges System — Dr. Bush has reimagined traditional institutional practices. His approach, including the implementation of guided pathways, has improved student outcomes while reducing achievement gaps for students of color and other historically marginalized populations. He holds a Ph.D. in Urban Educational Leadership from Claremont Graduate University, an M.A. in Public Administration from California State University San Bernardino, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Riverside.
A scholar of popular cultures, masculinities, and the African diaspora, Professor Gondola earned his Ph.D. from Université Paris VII and is a recipient of the Ali Mazrui Senior Fellowship in Global African Studies. A scholar of popular cultures, masculinities, and the African diaspora, Professor Gondola earned his Ph.D. from Université Paris VII, France. His research engages with youth cultures, interstitial groups, and postcolonial identities, with a specific focus on the 20th century and the socio-cultural impacts of Chinese commodities in urban Africa. A recipient of the Ali Mazrui Senior Fellowship in Global African Studies at The Africa Institute (GSU), he is currently developing work on gender ventriloquism in Congolese rumba lyrics, the objects of China–Africa exchange, and public transportation, sociality, and religious discourse in Kinshasa.
A 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Professor Jackson earned her Ph.D. from Yale University and explores comparative method and liberal thought through the lens of African literature and intellectual history. A 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Professor Jackson earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 2012. Her scholarship explores comparative method, philosophy, and liberal thought through the lens of African literature and intellectual history. She is the author of three books, including The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing (Princeton, 2021), which received Honorable Mention for the African Literature Association's Book of the Year Prize. Her forthcoming work, The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford's West Africa (Princeton, 2026), examines how legal thought shaped textual culture among early-twentieth-century Gold Coast intellectuals.
Ghana Journalist of the Year 2019, Samson Anyenini holds an LL.M. in Alternative Dispute Resolution and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, with a practice focused on International Commercial and Investment Arbitration. Crowned the 25th P.V. Ansah Journalist of the Year 2019 at the Ghana Journalists Association Media Awards, Samson Anyenini is a legal practitioner and broadcast journalist with Multimedia Group Limited. He holds a Master of Laws in Alternative Dispute Resolution, with a practice focused on International Commercial and Investment Arbitration. An Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he has consulted for and delivered papers to the Judicial Service of Ghana, Ghana Integrity Initiative, the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition, and the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development. He serves on the Board of the International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) Network.
Dr. Kyere's research examines racism and its mechanisms in restricting access to psychosocial and educational opportunities for people of African descent, drawing on the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to engage communities in interrupting its continuing effects. Dr. Kyere focuses his research on working with communities to theorize racism and identify the underlying mechanisms by which it restricts access to psychosocial, educational, and societal opportunities for people of African descent. He employs the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism to engage communities and educators in interrogating and interrupting its continuing effects, particularly in the U.S. and Africa. His expertise spans racial disparities in education and well-being, racial-ethnic socialization, racial identity, parenting, equitable school climate, program evaluation, international social work, and human trafficking.
A 2026–2027 Research Analyst and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wilson Centre, Vincenza Mazzeo's dissertation draws on oral history and women's alternative media to examine gender, race, and freedom within liberationist struggles in late-twentieth-century South Africa. A 2026–2027 Research Analyst and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wilson Centre, University Health Network, and the University of Toronto, Vincenza Mazzeo is also a Ph.D. candidate in History at Johns Hopkins University and a former Fellow at the Centre for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine. She holds an Honours B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.A. from Carleton University. Her dissertation draws on oral history and women's alternative media to examine how ideas of gender, race, health, and freedom were articulated within liberationist struggles across South Africa in the late twentieth century. Her research interests include the histories of health and medicine, gender and sexuality studies, African history, and postcolonial studies.
A designer and educator whose practice investigates how community, identity, and culture are shaped through multidisciplinary approaches — from artist books to public space activations — with a focus on language documentation and colonial architectural legacies. A visual communication designer and educator, Jude Agboada uses dialogue to foster meaningful conversations across disciplines. His practice investigates how community, identity, and culture are shaped through approaches ranging from artist books to public space activations, and he is dedicated to developing new ways of creating connection by examining how people relate to one another, to the spaces they inhabit, and to the communicative strategies that enable those relationships. His current research focuses on language documentation and the architectural legacies of former colonial states. He contributes as a team member at Tampered Press, a publication committed to amplifying the voices of writers and visual artists in Ghana, across Africa, and throughout the diaspora.
A Ghanaian academic and public servant, Professor Nsoh has served as both Upper East and Upper West Regional Minister of Ghana, and holds a professorial appointment in the Department of Gur-Gonja Languages Education at the University of Education, Winneba. A Ghanaian academic and public servant with extensive experience in both higher education and government, Professor Nsoh has served as Upper East Regional Minister and, prior to that, as Upper West Regional Minister, contributing significantly to regional administration and development. He holds a professorial appointment in the Department of Gur-Gonja Languages Education within the Faculty of Ghanaian Languages Education at the College of Languages Education, University of Education, Winneba (Ajumako campus), where he also served as Principal. Committed to applying scholarship to societal development, he is a co-founder of TEERE, an NGO based in the Upper East Region working to advance community development and social empowerment.