Academic Advisors

Lynete Lusike Mukhongo is the visiting assistant professor of communication and digital media at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

Winston Mano is Reader at the University of Westminster, UK, and member of the Communication Research Institute’s Global Media Research Network. He is also the principal editor of the Journal of African Media Studies and a senior research fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Sean Jacobs is the associate professor of international affairs at the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at The New School. He is the founder and editor of Africa is a Country, a site of criticism, analysis and new writing.

Johanna Blakley is the managing director at the Norman Lear Center, based at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.