Meet the Team
Dr. Ekua Andrea Agha
Founder & Co-Executive Producer
Sarah Kornfeld
Co-Executive Producer
Laurence Lewandowska
Chief Operations Officer · Location: Zug, Switzerland Bio
Professor Winston Mano
Academic Partner · Location: London Institution: University of Westminster, CAMRI
Olufemi Vaughan, PhD
Senior Advisor - Amherst College, Massachusetts
Zachary Oladimeji
Cinematographer / Creative Director
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A full Professor and a member of the University of Westminster's top-rated Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). Course Leader for the MA in Media and Development and Founder/Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of African Media Studies.
A Zurich-based finance executive and economist with over 15 years of experience in Web3, private equity, and traditional financial markets. She was the COO of the NEAR Foundation and remains a leader in equity equality programs.
London-based cinematographer and creative director; founder of ZUBBO Films; trained at the London Film Academy, with production credits across Surreal, Picante, Protcl, and projects with photographer Seb Xavier
Olufemi O. Vaughan was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria, before moving to the United States. He obtained his B. A. in 1980 and M. A. in 1983 in Government from St. John's University. Vaughan received his PhD in Politics from Oxford University in 1989, where his research was influenced by three distinguished Africanists: Anthony Kirk-Greene, Terence Ranger, and Gavin Williams. He was Professor of Africana Studies and History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where he also directed the International Studies Program, the College for Global Studies, and was associate dean and associate provost from 1990 to 2008. Vaughan was Geoffrey Canada Professor of Africana Studies and History at Bowdoin College, Maine, from 2008 to 2017. At Bowdoin, he also directed the establishment of an Africana Studies Program. Olufemi Vaughan was appointed Alfred Sargent Lee '41 and Mary Ames Lee Professor of African Studies at Amherst College in 2017. He is the author of over 10 books, and a two time recipient of Ford Foundation Grants. He is considered one of the world’s leading scholars on Africa.
Kornfeld is a multidisciplinary cultural executive born and raised in the New York Avant Garde theater movement. She has domain expertise in site specific installation and performance, as well as Art and Technology, working with such organizations as The Kitchen, California Academy of Science, Blue Mind Summits, The Magnus Center for Jewish Art and Life, UC Irvine’s Beall Center for Art and Technology, Zaccho Dance Theatre and Institute for The Future. She is an internationally published author of two books and has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books on policy and the arts. She has additional expertise in technology marketing having worked for Netflix, Google Earth and the NEAR blockchain protocol. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College she also trained as a producer at The Royal Court Theater. She drives the project's overall programmatic architecture, Technology, and Immersive programming.
Historian, lecturer on dir Ousmane Sembene, contributor to the London Film’s School’s MA Screen Studies Program and BA English and Humanities Program, Birkbeck, University of London. CAMRI Visiting Scholar, University of Westminster, Fellow at IFRA Nigeria and ACT, University of Freiburg. Certified Trauma Informed Practitioner social justice /arts. Senior academic in Education and Prison Prison Reform Movements. MA French and Francophone Studies, University of Westminster, PhD in Postcolonial Studies, University of London (Birkbeck College) and PGCert Education from Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent. Eexc. Producer, Wednesday66 Productions.