Organizations Filed Purposes:
The Africa Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, multidisciplinary institution, provides a gateway for engagement with contemporary Africa.
Public Programs Public programs at The Africa Center are multidisciplinary and focus on the Center's three core areas of culture, policy and business. The Africa Center works in close collaboration with artists, academics, policy makers, institutions and organizations on a wide range of programs that include film screenings, book launches, workshops, musical performances, as well as panel discussions and community activations on business and policy. In 2020, The Africa Center developed over 109 programs that reached 57,646 people.
New Center - The Africa Center is transforming the worlds understanding of Africa, its Diaspora and the role of people of African descent in the world. Serving as the hub for the exchange of ideas around culture, business, and policy related to the continent, and in the spirit of collaboration and engagement with individuals and institutions who share the Centers values, The Africa Center inspires enthusiasm, and advances thought and action around Africas global influence and impact on our collective and shared futures. This mission is guided by a leadership team that includes Board Co-Chairs Chelsea Clinton and Hadeel Ibrahim, Board President Halima Aliko Dangote, and CEO Uzodinma Iweala.
Exhibitions The Africa Center produces exhibitions that align with our mission of transforming narratives about the African Diaspora, African continent and people of African descent. The Center works with up and coming contemporary visual artists from across the diaspora whose work reflects the diversity that exists among people of African descent. In 2020, The Africa Center hosted 2 exhibitions with artists from South Africa and Ethiopia.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Uzodinma Iweala | CEO | 40 | $199,857 |
| Jenny Hourihan | COO & CFO | 40 | $174,636 |
| Alana Hairston | Director, Programs | 40 | $120,668 |
| Elizabeth Tanya Masiyiwa | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Herbert Wigwe | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Rick Segal | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Gbenga Oyebode | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Lupita Nyongo | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Siya Madikane | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Margaret Anadu | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Dana Reed | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Blair Miller | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Maja Hoffmann | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Corinne Evens | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Michaela De Pury | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Hadeel Ibrahim | Co-Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Chelsea Clinton | Co-Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Jendayi Frazer | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Benjamin Stein | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Ian Bruce Eichner | Vice-Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Halima Dangote | President | 1 | $0 |
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