"Established in 2014, the Mandela Washington Fellowship is the flagship program of the U.S. Department of State's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). More than 700 innovators and leaders from sub-Saharan Africa are selected each summer to participate in academic and leadership training at U.S. colleges and universities." say s the Staley School of Leadership Studies Introduction.

I participated in the initiative as a student coordinator in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

"The Africa Center for Strategic Progress is the first policy think tank to adopt a genuinely African-solution centered and data-driven approach to African foreign and regional policy research analysis" introduced by the center itself.

I worked during the summer 2020 as a research analyst.