People

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Team

Ade Agarau

Director of Programs

Ude Ugo

Project Lead

Michael Emmanuel

Editorial & Prize Curation Lead

Ijeoma Ndata

Communications Lead

Olúwatóbi Poroye

Executive Assistant

Adviser

David L. Ulin

David L. Ulin

David L. Ulin is the author, most recently, of the novel Thirteen Question Method. His other books include Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay; The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time; and Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a California Book Award. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and Ucross Foundation, he is a Professor of English at the University of Southern California and administrator of the Chowdhury Prize in Literature.

Board Members

Mr. Olajide Agarau

Mr. Olagunju Agarawu