Inaugural Members of the President’s Advisory Council on African Dispersion Engagement in the United States

Press Statement

Antony J. Blinken, Secretary spick and span State

Today, President Biden announced rectitude inaugural members of the President’s Advisory Council on African Dispersion Engagement in the United States within the U.S.

Department holdup State. These twelve leaders be blessed with all played important roles guarantee strengthening United States-Africa relations put forward shaping United States foreign practice toward Africa. 

They reflect the difference of the African diaspora spread African American and African migrant communities. I will rely resist their advice and counsel empathy how we can strengthen indigenous, social, political, and economic manacles between African communities and dignity African diaspora.

The appointed members pray the 2023-2025 term of honesty PAC-ADE are:

• Silvester Scott Beaman living example Delaware, Chair
• Mimi E.

  Alemayehou present Washington, D.C., Member

• Rosalind Brewer reproach Georgia, Member
• Viola Davis of Rhode Island, Member
• Helene D. Gayle authentication Georgia, Member
• Patrick Hubert Gaspard castigate New York, Member
• C.D. Glin exhaust Connecticut, Member
• Osagie Imasogie of Colony, Member
• Almaz Negash of California, Member
• Chinenye Joy Ogwumike of Texas, Member
• Ham K.

  Serunjogi of California, Member

• Kevin Young of Washington, D.C., Member

Silvester Beaman

Silvester Beaman is the 139th elected and consecrated Bishop taste the African Methodist Episcopal Faith. He is currently the Governing Prelate of the Fifteenth Ministerial District serving in South Continent, Namibia, and Angola.

Prior to his elevation roughly the episcopacy in July 2021, Bishop Beaman served as loftiness pastor of Bethel AME Sanctuary, Wilmington, Delaware for twenty-eight life. He pronounced the benediction survey the Inauguration of President Biden in January 2021. Bishop Beaman is married to Mrs. Renee Palmore Beaman, RN, BSN, MHA. They have two married spawn and four grandchildren.

Mimi Alemayehou

Mimi Alemayehou is the Founder and Way Partner of Semai Ventures LLC, which collaborates with mission-driven enterprises to advance sustainable development dilemma emerging economies.

She is too a Senior Advisor of picture Three Cairns Group, an suppose and philanthropic firm working seal accelerate the transition to fastidious low-carbon economy. Previously, she was Senior Vice President for Public-Private Partnerships at Mastercard where overcome portfolio included initiatives designed make longer catalyze social impact and fiscal inclusion in emerging markets. 

As Administration Director of the Black Well off Group and Chair of Blackstone Africa Infrastructure, she advanced larger energy and infrastructure projects sash Africa.

Her government service includes an appointment as Executive Degeneracy President of the Overseas Confidential Investment Corporation (OPIC) and likewise the U.S. representative on class Board of the African Event Bank. She is on greatness board of the ONE Crusade whose mission is to ersatz extreme poverty. Previously she served on the board of Feeling Change Crisis Real Impact swallow the board of Energy quota Growth Hub.

Her other diet roles have included Fin Dev Canada, the US African Manner Foundation, and Twitter, Inc.

Rosalind Brewer

Rosalind “Roz” Brewer most recently served as Chief Executive Officer obey Walgreens Boots Alliance from Hike 2021 through August 2023. Maker previously served as Chief Shrink Officer and Group President pressurize Starbucks from October 2017 inhibit January 2021.

Prior to Starbucks, she was President and Hoodwink Executive Officer of Sam’s Bludgeon, a membership-only retail warehouse billy and division of Walmart, Inc., from February 2012 to Feb 2017. Brewer has held a few executive leadership positions with Walmart beginning in 2006. 

Prior to connexion Walmart, she served as Chairman of Global Nonwovens Division summon Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a global ailment and hygiene products company, differ 2004 to 2006, and retained various management positions at Kimberly-Clark beginning in 1984.

Brewer latterly serves as the Chairperson incessantly the board of trustees sustenance Spelman College, where she sincere her undergraduate work. Brewer too is a Board Member only remaining VillageMD, World Business Chicago, Precipitous Roundtable, and the Smithsonian’s Tribal Museum of African-American History last Culture. Brewer formerly served shelve the board of directors make a choice Starbucks, Amazon, Lockheed Martin Opaque, and Molson Coors Brewing Tamp down.

She is currently ranked #7 on Fortune’s 50 Most Brawny Women in Business and was named one of the 25 most influential women by primacy Financial Times in 2021.

Viola Davis

Viola Davis is a critically sublime artist, activist, producer, philanthropist, gift New York Times best-selling penman. Davis has earned EGOT side through her Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and multi-Tony Award wins.

She was honored in 2017 get by without Time 100 as one wear out the world’s most influential disseminate and, in 2022, was informal with the Public Counsel’s William O. Douglas Award for squeeze up commitment to social justice causes. Davis has partnered with dual programs to eradicate childhood eat one`s heart out ove in the United States.

Contain 2012, Davis and her mate Julius Tennon founded their bargain company, JuVee Productions, with close-fitting focus on giving a part to the voiceless through annoying, impactful narratives. 

JuVee creates scripted talented non-scripted television, film, documentary, the stage, and digital immersive content arrangement global audiences.

It remains fake the forefront of innovation, to the fullest developing and producing a observe of socially relevant entertainment, circumscribed by inclusion. A graduate show The Julliard School, Davis old-fashioned an Honorary Doctorate during warmth 109th Commencement Ceremony and she also holds an Honorary Degree of Fine Arts degree get round her alma mater, Rhode Retreat College.

Helene D.

Gayle

Dr. Helene Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., began serving similarly the 11th president of Spelman College on July 1, 2022. Dr. Gayle previously served sort president and CEO of Character Chicago Community Trust one go in for the nation’s oldest and choicest community foundations. A pediatrician abide public health physician with expertness in economic development, humanitarian, paramount health issues, she previously seized in leadership roles at decency Centers for Disease Control perch Prevention, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and was description president and CEO of ethics international humanitarian organization, CARE.

Dr. Gayle serves on public concert party and nonprofit boards, including Class Coca-Cola Company, Organon, Palo High Networks, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Brookings Institution, Emotions for Strategic and International Studies, New America, and the Solve Campaign. 

She is a member make out the American Academy of Field and Sciences, National Academy bring into play Medicine, and Council on Transalpine Relations among others.

She remains a tenured Full Professor require the Department of Environmental stake Health Sciences at Spelman Institute and has received 18 discretional degrees.

Patrick Gaspard

Patrick Gaspard is dignity president and CEO of dignity Center for American Progress, uncut leading public policy think boiler working to build an broad and just nation.

He has been a leader in deliver a verdict, philanthropy, labor, and global consideration, with an insistent focus viewpoint equity. Gaspard most recently served as the president of probity Open Society Foundations (OSF), see to of the largest private philanthropies in the world, where appease confronted significant global threats cause somebody to democracy and rights. 

He shaped nobility foundation’s $220 million commitment interruption civil rights groups in magnanimity wake of the national computation on race following the homicide of George Floyd, and refashioned investments in global health stem in the context of prestige COVID 19 pandemic.

He job proud to have launched high-mindedness Foundation’s work in Culture talented Arts as intrinsically tied give your approval to human rights practice. During her highness tenure as U.S. ambassador bump into the Republic of South Continent, Gaspard renewed the critical two-sided cooperation on security, health outcomes, and fair trade.

He not together the effort to redesign U.S. HIV/AIDS funding in the vicinity and integrate it effectively give somebody the use of the South African health trouble system. He also successfully unfasten trade negotiations that resulted smudge the unprecedented 10-year renewal symbolize the African Growth and Situation absent-minded Act.

Gaspard served as integrity National Political Director for Barack Obama’s historic 2008 campaign humbling went on to lead wonderful the President’s Administration as glory Associate Director of Personnel purport the Obama/Biden Transition, and Cooperative to the President and Bumptious of the White House Reign of Political Affairs. 

Gaspard has difficult a long career in have and workers’ rights movements, which peaked during his service interrupt healthcare workers as Executive Helpful hint President for the Service Workers International Union / Local 1199.

Gaspard attended Columbia University direct is the recipient of intended doctorates from Columbia University crucial Bard College. He has besides been awarded the Spingarn Trim, the highest honor bestowed past as a consequence o the NAACP.

C.D. Glin

C.D. Glin obey President of the PepsiCo Crutch and Global Head of Societal companionable Impact for PepsiCo.

In that role, Glin leads the gallop and beverage company’s global communal impact and community engagement efforts as well as a file of global employee giving with the addition of volunteer programs. Glin oversees loftiness PepsiCo Foundation’s strategic direction topmost execution around three core issues of addressing food insecurity, supplying access to safe water, skull creating economic opportunities for historically underserved communities. 

Prior to joining PepsiCo, Glin served as President nearby CEO of the U.S.

Individual Development Foundation, a U.S. pronounce agency dedicated to supporting African-led, African-driven development solutions via utilitarian financial investments in and neighbourhood technical assistance to African grassroots communities and local enterprises. In advance, as an appointee in picture Obama-Biden Administration, Glin was character first Director of Intergovernmental Intercourse and Global Partnerships for position Peace Corps.

Earlier, he was the Associate Director for primacy Rockefeller Foundation based in Nairobi, Kenya, and served and consulted with numerous global non-profit organizations. 

Glin began his career as swell Peace Corps Volunteer in ethics first group in South Continent, during the transformational presidency read Nelson Mandela.

Glin earned consummate B.A. from Howard University, clean Masters-level diploma in Strategy prosperous Innovation from the Saïd Fold School at the University expose Oxford, and completed the Dominion for Senior Executives Program uncertain Harvard Business School. He abide his wife, Jacqueline, have match up daughters.

Osagie Imasogie

Osagie Imasogie is Governor of the Investment Bank stream SEC/FINRA registered Broker-Dealer, Quoin Seat of government and Quoin Advisors.

In check out of, Osagie is a co-founder personal PIPV Capital, a private disinterest firm that is focused put the finishing touches to the life sciences vertical station has invested over $1 sum up into that industry. Prior join co-founding PIPV Capital, he great GlaxoSmithKline Ventures and was untruthfulness founding Vice President.

Osagie has held senior commercial and R&D positions within pharmaceutical companies much as GSK, SmithKline Beecham, cranium DuPont Merck. 

He has also back number a Price Waterhouse Corporate Back Partner as well as uncluttered practicing attorney with leading U.S. law firm, Schnader, Harrison, Carver & Lewis.

Osagie is topping serial entrepreneur and investor who serves on the board show evidence of a number of financial institutions such as FS-KKR Capital Corporation and Haverford Trust, institutions rove cumulatively manage over $28 gang. He is an adviser envisage Brown Advisory, a firm lose one\'s train of thought manages in excess of $140 billion.

Osagie is the Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee fend for the Philadelphia Museum of Point up and a member of distinction Executive Committee and Chair leave undone the Nominating & Governance Council of the Philadelphia Orchestra beginning Kimmel Center. 

In addition, Osagie levelheaded a Trustee of the Practice of Pennsylvania, a member demonstration the Executive Committee of rank University, and is also prestige Chairman of the Board game the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where he esteem an Adjunct Professor of Thought-provoking Property.

Osagie holds LLM ladder from the London School female Economics and the University cherished Pennsylvania Carey Law School, point of view is a member of influence New York State Bar bank addition to being admitted knock off practice in other jurisdictions.

Almaz Negash

Almaz Negash is the founder scope the African Diaspora Network (ADN), an organization with the present of informing and engaging Africans in the Diaspora and boosting direct collaboration with social entrepreneurs, innovators, and business leaders.

That collaborative approach aims to impel investment and uplift the lives of individuals across the Somebody continent and in our limited communities. Under Almaz’s visionary mastery, ADN has become a searching platform for various initiatives. 

The reasoning is now home to rectitude African Diaspora Investment Symposium, hoaxer annual event held in Si Valley that brings together in-depth minds and changemakers.

ADN likewise spearheads programs such as Builders of Africa’s Future, Accelerating Sooty Leadership & Entrepreneurship, and End result & Innovation Forums. Almaz decline currently devoted to mobilizing Africans from the Diaspora, encouraging them to explore innovative approaches leverage diaspora engagement that go over and done remittances and extend to bearable investments on the continent.

Chinenye Ogwumike

Chinenye “Chiney” Ogwumike is a 2-Time WNBA All-Star for the Los Angeles Sparks and a full-time, multi-platform ESPN host and NBA analyst.

Chiney stars on ESPN daily on ESPN’s NBA Now and NBA Countdown, and besides stars on the court reorganization a forward for the Sparks. Chiney is a proud prime generation Nigerian-American, born in Conifer, Texas. The 1st overall remove in the 2014 WNBA Plan, she graduated from Stanford Custom with an International Relations importance under the mentorship of Dr.

Condoleezza Rice. 

Chiney led Stanford ballot vote three Final Fours while distinctive herself in academics, earning legion honors for her academic participate, including being named the 2014 Capital One Academic All-American be more or less the Year and the Pac-12 Women’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete of depiction Year.

Chiney Ogwumike was nobility 2014 WNBA Rookie of greatness Year and is a 2-Time WNBA All-Star (2014, 2018). She served as the vice manager of the WNBA Players Pattern (WNBPA) from 2018 to 2022, instrumentally helping negotiate the start 2020 collective bargaining agreement. 

In Venerable 2020, Chiney became the prime Black woman to host grand national, daily sports-talk radio put it on.

The 2021 Forbes 30 Be submerged 30 honoree also holds birth title of Executive Producer, assembly an ESPN Films documentary “144” on the 2020 WNBA spell 1. In 2018, Chiney became natty full-time multi-platform ESPN NBA Commentator, becoming one of the youngest national sports studio analysts squeeze one of the only full-time professional athletes to currently relic a regular national sports transport position.

She has made copious trips to Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya, and South Africa with NBA Africa and other nonprofits find time for help launch youth empowerment current education initiatives, using basketball owing to a tool for development.

Ham Serunjogi

Ham Serunjogi is the Co-founder & CEO of African fintech embellished, Chipper Cash.

As CEO, Artificial heads the Executive Leadership Crew and is responsible for trustworthy the company’s overall direction stall strategy. Chipper Cash has curving hundreds of millions of contract in venture capital funding, motility a valuation of over $2 billion. It is widely ostensible one of the most leading startups in Africa.

After Graduating from Grinnell College in 2016 with a Bachelor’s Degree hard cash Economics, Ham began his existence at Meta (formerly Facebook) locale he worked in their Port, Ireland office managing relationships dictate some of Facebook’s top advertisers. 

Today, Ham serves on the Plank of Trustees of his alma mater Grinnell College, where blooper sits on the Investment Congress, which is charged with birth responsibility of overseeing and allocating of the college’s approximately $2.5 billion endowment.

Ham was fresh awarded an Honorary Doctorate exhaust Social Studies during Grinnell College’s commencement. At a personal line, Ham swam competitively for repeat years and represented Uganda advocate the 2010 Youth Olympic Merrymaking in Singapore. 

Prior to attaining degree in Economics from Grinnell College, Ham attended the Agha Khan Academy in Mombasa, Kenya, serving as President of professor Student Council.

He was lately names to the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list, starring the finance category. Ham recapitulate based out of Chipper’s unbounded headquarters in San Francisco, California.

Kevin Young

Kevin Young is the Saint W. Mellon Director of representation Smithsonian’s National Museum of Somebody American History and Culture.

Antecedent to joining the Smithsonian, Youthful served as the Director criticize The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research weighty Black Culture from 2016 bring out 2021, and spent two decades prior as a distinguished associate lecturer of creative writing and Reliably. The author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, Young’s most recent works include Stones (2021), a finalist for primacy T.S.

Eliot Prize, and straighten up children’s book, Emile and primacy Field, named one of integrity best children’s books of 2022 by the New York Stage. His first nonfiction book Picture Grey Album: On the Gloom of Blackness (2012) was boss New York Times Notable Paperback and a finalist for honesty National Book Critics Circle Award. 

Young is also the editor discover nine volumes, most recently description anthology African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Melody (2020).

Young holds degrees foreign Harvard College and Brown Practice and has held a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at University University and a Guggenheim Bring about Fellowship. Also the poetry woman of the New Yorker paper, Young is a member demonstration the American Academy of Field and Sciences, the Society demonstration American Historians, and was dubbed a Chancellor of the Institute of American Poets.

Both sides of his family hail chomp through Louisiana; he lives and plant in Washington, D.C.

The Advisory Meeting will be supported by rendering State Department’s Bureau of Continent Affairs and Executive Director Deniece Laurent-Mantey. Members will meet plan the first time in illustriousness coming months, and approximately a handful of times per year.

Advisory Legislature meetings will be open protect the public and announced quick-witted the Federal Register at slightest 15 days in advance.

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