Mfundo Msimango is a South African PhD candidate pursuing a dual-title degree in Applied Linguistics and African Studies at Penn State University. His research investigates language education and multiliteracies in South African classrooms through Afrocentric and decolonial frameworks. Mfundo explores how these perspectives inform multilingual practices, teacher identities, and transformative pedagogies. 

As an alumnus of Howard University and advocate of African centered education, Jordan Cuby believes that knowledge is the most powerful tool that a person can develop for community uplift and holistic consciousness. Jordan is currently one of the newest fellows of the Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement (DISA), as well as a 2nd year PhD Student in the Department of Africology and African Diaspora Studies at Temple University. His research interests include Afrocentric Medical Pluralism in the field of Conventional Public Health and the Restoration of Ontological Balance in African American communities through the Afrocentric Artform.

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