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Akua Kouyate
Akua Femi Kouyate has worked as an
administrator, educator and professional artist
for more than 30 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 and has also choreographed several works in African and modern dance idioms. 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 30 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 Senegal, Mali and the Gambia and is a recipient of a Fullbright Foreign Scholarship Award.
For additional information, telephone: MAC, Inc. at
202/210-7120 or write to: MAC, Inc. P.O. Box 50045,
Washington, D.C. 20091;
or email akuakouyate@memoryofafricanculture.org
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