Krystal strong

Krystal Strong is the Principal Investigator on the project and an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Learn more about her research at: https://scholar.gse.upenn.edu/strong

Christiana Kallon

Christiana is a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. Her doctoral research interests include education, development, gender and peace and conflict studies in Sub-Saharan Africa.  She provides research assistance for Dr. Krystal Strong, and has been working on this research since 2016. Christiana is from Sierra Leone, and has lived and worked in Kenya, Uganda and Senegal.

Patty Lan

Patty is a recent graduate of University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. She has been working on this research since 2017 and is interested in international development, higher education, emerging/emerged economies and postcolonialism. She will begin research in a doctoral program in anthropology starting in the fall of 2019. 

Ajibola Adigun

Ajibola graduated with his master's in social sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban where he researched the 2015-2016 Fees movement as a Mandela-Rhodes Scholar. As an undergraduate at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, he met Dr Krystal Strong and served as a research assistant on her doctoral thesis on student leadership in Nigeria, and wrote his undergraduate thesis on student associations and university governance at the University of Ibadan where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Political Science. He has interned at non-profits in America, and the legislative house of his home state in Oyo, Nigeria. His other research interests are in critical genealogies of decolonization, governance, and urban culture in Africa.

Fortunate Ekwuruke

Fortunate is a dual-degree student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education and School of Social Policy and Practice. She began working with the research team in the Fall of 2018. Her research interests include youth development, nonprofit organizations, housing policy and education, child/youth homelessness, and socioeconomic/structural inequality. She also has a background in Africana Studies, specifically relating to the Igbo Nigerian immigrant experience. 

Arnaud Mutabazi

ryan Haas

Ryan Haas is a recent graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. Ryan came into this project in 2019 after taking two courses with Dr. Strong during their master’s program. Ryan continued the work on the Activism Beyond the Classroom’s course website in the summer following the course’s completion. This led to continued collaboration, and in December of 2018 Dr. Strong invited Ryan to support her project management. They collaborate with the research team specifically to develop the project’s web presence, curate content for this site, and think through systems design. Ryan’s broader research interests include youth’s political geographies within-and-beyond community organizations, radical theories of power, and decolonial epistemologies of space.

HAOYANG ZhAng

Folatomi Alli-Balogun