Student Manager
Student Managers are Yale College students that help to steward the Center, they work select hours and oversee the well being of the Center and its guests, students and student groups. Managers welcome visitors and provide tours of the Center while making sure the Center remains orderly and attractive for all to enjoy.
Yetunde Meroe grew up in Accra, Ghana and is in Morse College, she plans to major in Chemical Engineering. (currently abroad)
Andrew Williams, of Texarkana, Arkansas, is a History of Science and History of Medicine major in Davenport College.
Social Media Coordinator
The Center’s SMC organizes and coordinates vital Center information for distribution on social media outlets, including lectures, discussions, social events, res group meetings and other information pertinent to the Center community on and off campus.
Malik Gerdes originally hails from New Orleans and in Ezrile Stiles College, he plans on majoring in Political science and hopes to go to Law school after Yale. (currently abroad)
Student Assistants
Student Assistants assist with alumni reunion activities, such as the 45th Reunion in addition to special assistance assignments at the Afro American Cultural Center.
Yonas Takele, is from Lawrenceville, Georgia but is originally from (and born in) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is a prospective Psychology w/Neuroscience major.
Ewurama Okai, is in Davenport College and from Accra Ghana. She is a prospective Global Affairs major.
Freshmen Coordinators
Elisia Ceballo-Countryman, grew up in Ann Arbor Michigan and is in Calhoun College.
Michael Johnson is from Fayetteville Georgia and is a student in JE planning to major in mechanical engineering.
Graduate Student-In-Resident
Established in 2013, Yale graduate and professional students are creatively selected to serve as a Graduate Student-In-Resident of the Center, providing mentoring and assistance to the Center while also linking the graduate and professional student community to the Center and its College students.
Wendell Adjetey is a PhD student in the Departments of History and African American Studies. His doctoral research looks at the formation of twentieth-century Afrodiasporic freedom linkages. On campus, Wendell is involved in the World Fellows program and the Graduate School’s ODEO, as well as shooting J’s whenever possible.
Craig Lapriece Holloway is a PhD candidate in Sociology with a research focus on the social constructs and lived experiences of urban African-American men around family and race. He is a graduate of Tuskegee and Harvard universities and Yale (MPhil).
Jermaine Demetrius Lloyd is a PhD candidate in History and AfAm Studies focusing on the History of the Soviet Union and African American and American History since 1865. He holds a BA from UNLV and an MA from Moscow State in Russia and an MA from Yale (2013).