Africa Education Project
“Lack of an education is more costly than an education.”
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AEP staff and its Board of Directors would like to thank the following past Board members who have dedicated their time and talents to the charitable purposes of the Africa Education Project. Their service is deeply appreciated.
Dr. Simon Agolory
Year(s) Served: 2003, 2004, 2005
Dr. Agolory is very passionate about serving the poor in developing countries. He is committed to the upliftment of the disadvantaged and he believes the best way to impact their lives is through the provision of proper healthcare and an adequate education. Dr. Agolory is a graduate of North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently a resident physician in internal medicine at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he lives with his wife. Dr. Agolory is a native of southern Sudan. He served as AEP's first Board President and was the organization's corporator in North Carolina.
Dr. Richard Anyah
Year(s) Served: 2005
Richard Anyah was born in Kisumu District in western Kenya. After high school he joined Siriba Teachers College in 1987 where he graduated with a Diploma in Education, majoring in mathematics. After a five year stint teaching mathematics at various high schools in Kenya, he joined the University of Nairobi in 1993 for a Bachelor of Science degree (first class honors) and later for a Master of Science degree. Dr. Anyah completed his Doctorate degree at North Carolina State University in 2005. He is currently a postdoc research associate at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Dr. Anyah contributed a unique perspective to the AEP Board as he served as a teacher in the educational system in Africa.
Jim Barber
Year(s) Served: 2006
Jim has been the Executive Director of LEARN NC since 1999. LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, finds the most innovative and successful practices in K–12 education and makes them available to the teachers and students of North Carolina and the world. Previously he was the associate superintendent for financial and personnel services with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction where he served for 17 years. Jim serves on the Boards of Directors of the North Carolina Public School Forum and the State Employees' Credit Union. He is a member of the Governor's Character Education Advisory Committee, the NC Partner's Leadership Council, and the E-Learning Commission, and is a principal investigator with the National Research Center for Rural Education Support. A native of upstate New York, Jim graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Colgate University in 1968, then served in the Navy as a supply corps officer in Vietnam, and an auditor with the Naval Audit Service in Boston. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1974.
Lisa Brades
Year(s) Served: 2005, 2006
Lisa Brandes has spent more than 25 years in education: teaching at the university level, as chairman of a major museum education department, and assisting education nonprofits with organizational and funding challenges. Mrs. Brandes holds a bachelor's degree in museum management from California State University, Chico and a master's degree in public administration from the University of San Francisco. She has travelled extensively in underdeveloped countries and believes that education and health care are the keys to eradicating extreme poverty. Mrs. Brandes lives in Benicia, California with her husband; her two sons attend college at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Sandra Prater
Year(s) Served: 2005
Sandra Prater has lived in Durham, North Carolina, for 20 years. Of all the places she has lived, the Triangle Area of NC is her favorite because of its diversity. She meets people from many countries every day. She holds a master's degree in financial consulting with a concentration in adult education. She loves her work as an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher and finds that the most important part of her work is creating the opportunity to understand our own and others' cultures. She became interested in Africa through teaching a number of students from Somalia. She speaks Spanish at a conversational level and began studying French in the fall of 2005. She has two teenage daughters. Ms. Prater is chair of the Peace and Reconciliation Committee at her church. She also raises assistance dogs for fun. Sandra served at AEP's Vice President during her service term.
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