NWANDO ACHEBE, the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History, and Associate Dean for Access, Faculty Development and Strategic Implementation is an accomplished equity minded and transformative change academic leader. She is a multi-award-winning scholar-advocate historian and teacher at Michigan State University.
A 2022-23 ACE Fellow and a 2022 HERS Leadership Fellow, Dr. Achebe is co-director of the Christie and Chinua Achebe Foundation, co-CEO of Achebe Masterworks, LLC, editor-in-chief of the Journal of West African History; member of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, and Vice President of the African Studies Association.