Professor at St John's University Tyesha Maddox Dr. Tyesha Maddox is a Historian of the African Diaspora and an assistant professor of African and Africa American studies at Fordham University. Dr. Maddox received her PhD in History from New York University in 2016. Before joining the faculty at Fordham, she was the 2015-2016 African and African Diaspora Studies Dissertation Fellow at Boston College and a 2015-2016 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. In 2018, she was a Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Research Library in NYC as a Ford Foundation/Mellon
Ken Irish-Bramble, was born to Montserratian parents in Marigott, St. Martin. Dr. Irish-Bramble currently holds a BA in Political Science from the City University of New York (CUNY); a MA in Comparative Politics from New York University (NYU); a MA in Secondary Education from Pace University and; a Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from NYU.Dr. Irish-Bramble has worked in a variety of not-for-profit and government agencies as an educator, community advocate, researcher, service coordinator, athletic coach and advisor. He served as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences for twenty years. Until recently, he also served as a high school mathematics teacher and disciplinary Dean for the New York City Department of Education and a Research Fellow at the Caribbean Research Center at Medgar Evers College (CRC).
