Dr. Korka Sall 

Dr. Korka Sall is a seasoned international educator, researcher and change maker with more than 15 years in international education, international development, gender and child protection. She is currently the Academic Director of MSID-Senegal, a study abroad program in Senegal for the University of Minnesota. Korka came back to Senegal after nine years in the U.S. teaching and conducting research at different universities including UMass Amherst, Mount Holyoke College, and Harvard University.

Invested in creating spaces in the Senegalese educational system for children to grow and thrive to their full potentials, Korka is the founder and President of the Association SamaMentor which promotes mentorship within schools, expands African solidarity systems to children and facilitates intercultural learnings and understandings. She thrives in creating spaces of dialogue for African women to fight gender inequality. A huge advocate of wellness and well-being for Black women leaders, Korka is the Founder of the plate form Black Women Directors, a plate form that brings together black women leaders in Africa and its Diaspora and builds solidarity systems. She is a certified translator with the Senegalese Ministry of African Integration and Foreign Affairs and is the co-founder of the Language Teaching and Translation Cabinet (LTTC).

Korka holds an MA and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (May 2021) and her research interests include Caribbean studies, gender studies, feminist studies and African diaspora studies. She is a passionate scholar, militant of human rights and activist invested in promoting contributions of African Women in liberatory movements such as Negritude, Harlem Renaissance, Feminisms, and Pan-Africanism. Her scholarship focuses on post-colonial studies, languages and cultures, black studies, and gender and development.