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"If you aim for the stars, getting to the moon
is a piece of cake"
-Dr. Yvonne Seon
Yvonne Seon, Ph.D.
the founding Director of the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center
at Wright State University in Dayton, OH, has returned to serve as
Distinguished Visiting Director. She comes to Wright State
University from Prince George's Community College, where she is
professor of African American Studies in the History Department at
Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD. A native of
Washington, D.C., she learned first-hand about Africa during two
years as Administrative Director of the High Commission for the Inga
Dam Project with the Government of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Kinshasa, where she learned Lingala and perfected her spoken
French. She returned to continue formal study in African and
African American life and culture through the Union Institute,
earning a doctorate and helping to shape the new discipline in the
1970’s. She taught the first course on “The African American Woman”
offered at the University of Maryland at College Park and developed
the course, “Comparative Black Literature” at Howard University.
Yvonne Seon has worked with the late Congressman Charles C. Diggs,
Chairman of the House Sub-committee on Africa. After 23 years
continuous service on the Board of Directors of Africare, a private,
voluntary organization specializing in Development in Africa, from
2002 to 2004, she was Vice-Chair of Africare, which manages an
annual budget of over 30 million dollars |
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