About this speaker
Over the last 22 years, Dr. Ayo Sekai has worked to advance outcomes for education and business through academic research, federal leadership, and scholarly publications through UWP Press. Sekai has taught as a high and middle school K-12 teacher, is a prolific invited presenter and speaker, and faculty and academic development thought leader with decades of expertise in print media, magazine, fiction, and trade publications. Earning her Ph.D. in Political Science from Howard University (HBCU), Dr. Sekai operationalize her research specializations in Black Politics and International Relations to interrogate language structures through the frameworks of Linguistic Imperialism, Glottopolitics, and Raciolinguistic to disrupt public policy and politics that perpetuates structural and systematic racism, Dr. Sekai uses her platform to elevate Black Scholars' research that bridges the gap between the Global North and the Global South with inclusive diasporic narratives, reclamation of agency, and empowering educators in the academy to participate in not just the "Publish or Perish" scenarios for scholars, but to engage the publishing ecosystem, by citing the works of fellow Black scholars, using their titles in the classroom, publishing with Black publishers across genre, discipline, and in journals, to shift the trajectory of a long-delayed manifestation of equity and equality in research scholarship throughout Global Africa.
Dr. Ayo Sekai is a Fulbright Specialist and a life member of multiple academic and practitioner associations. She serves on numerous boards and is an active scholar presenting and writing on topics that align with her research scholarly publications, including her recorded social justice poetry as a spoken word poetic activist and her book, A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse. Sekai has leveraged her partnership with SAGE Publishing, a global social science press, to effect and impact the voice of the diaspora as actors and agents to no longer be observed but to be observers of history through intellectual discourse. Find her on Google Scholar, Research Gate, our website at UWP, and all social media platforms. She is excited to engage your students and faculty in classrooms, symposiums, seminars, residency, and lecture series.
