Akua Kouyate

Akua Femi Kouyate has worked as an administrator, educator and professional artist for more than 25 years. She is the co-founder of Memory of African Culture, Inc., a cultural arts and education organization based in Washington, DC since 1983. Akua has performed with several dance companies over the past 25 years and has also choreographed several works in African and modern dance ideoms. She has also made presentations and participated in national and international conferences addressing African cultural art traditions, arts education and the performing arts.

Akua Femi Kouyate has several years experience working as an administrator for arts, other nonprofit, and government organizations including Memory of African Culture, Inc.,Young Audiences - DC Chapter, United Cerebral Palsy/UCP and the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, she serves as the Associate Director of Local Programs - Education for the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts at the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.

As an arts educator and dance instructor, Akua Femi Kouyate has taught African cultural arts traditions and modern dance for more than 15 years in the D.C. metropolitan area on the elementary, middle, high school and college levels and for community organizations. Currently, she is an Adjunct Faculty member of the Dance Major Program in the Department of Theatre Arts at Howard University. She holds a Master of Arts Degree in Art Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Performing Arts: Dance from the American University, and has conducted postgraduate and independent research in African Studies at Howard University and in the Gambia as a recipient of a Fullbright Foreign Scholarship Award.