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Please join the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution for a discussion on diversity and inclusion in higher education. Elavie Ndura, tenured Professor of Education and Presidential Fellow at George Mason University will lead the discussion.
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Dr. Elavie Ndura is a tenured Professor of Education and immediate past Academic Program Coordinator of the Multilingual/Multicultural Education program (MME) in the George Mason University's College of Education and Human Development (CEHD). She earned a Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction with emphasis in Bilingual and Multicultural Education from Northern Arizona University, USA; a M.Ed. in Teaching English for Specific Purposes from the University of Exeter, England; and a B.A. in Arts and Social Sciences with emphasis in English Language and Literature from the University of Burundi, Africa. She taught English Language Arts, English as a Foreign Language, English as a Second Language, and French in culturally diverse secondary schools for 17 years in Africa and the United States. She has been teaching college graduate and undergraduate Multicultural Education and TESOL courses in teacher preparation programs for many years. She is the coordinator of the Shinnyo Fellowship for Peacebuilding through Intercultural Dialogue at GMU. Professor Ndura joined the CEHD faculty at George Mason University in 2005 from University of Nevada-Reno.
Professor Ndura was a 2010-2011 Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the recipient of the Peace and Justice Association's 2011 Peace Educator of the Year Award. She was a Fulbright Scholar (1988, 1989-1993), and the recipient of the British Council Scholarship (1986-1987).