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July 2025: My third and final field research trip to Kenya for my dissertation project.
May 2025: I received the FLAS fellowship for the Summer and Academic year. This is key as I continue to pursue my Swahili learning.
May 2025: I was the recipient of the Ebrahim Hussein Fellowship, awarded by the Department of African Cultural Studies
April 2025: 🎉 Exciting milestone: I’m officially a PhD candidate! After successfully passing my preliminary examination and program portfolio review, I’ve advanced to candidacy in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Information School.
April 2025: My paper, “Translators as Gig Workers: A Pilot Study Assessing the Resource Portfolio and Agency of Translators in Kenya,” has been accepted by the African Studies Association conference in Georgia [November 19-22]. This is one of the chapters in my upcoming dissertation.
January 2025-2026: I collaborated on a book chapter titled “For Africa Without Africa? Contextualizing West African Cyber Security Strategies,” which will be coming out later in 2025. This should be out around 2025 or 2026.
April 2024: The African Finance and Economic Association [AFEA] accepted our paper, “Recentering Infrastructural Unsustainability in East Africa: A Case Study of Sino-Africa Relations.” The conference will be held in Nairobi, Kenya.
April 2024: I collaborated on a poster project titled “Utilizing AI to Enhance Swahili Speaking Proficiency Among Beginner-Level Students in the United States: A Pilot Study,” presented at the 18th Annual Second Language Acquisition Student Symposium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
April 2025: My poster paper was accepted at the iConference titled “Evaluating the Usage of Social Media Platforms by Nigerian Immigrants.“
December 2024: My note submission titled “Technology Appropriation: Evaluating Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) Tools in Kenya” was accepted for the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) conference in Nairobi, Kenya.
November 2024: I was accepted as a fellow at the Interdisciplinary Network for Technology and Entrepreneurship Research in Africa (INTERA).
September 2024: I published an article in the Nairobi Law Monthly titled “Policy Gaps in Nairobi’s Ride-hailing Sector.”
July 2024: My second research trip to Kenya. I also engaged in an intensive Swahili language course during my stay in Kenya.
April 2024: I co-authored a poster paper, which was accepted and presented at the iConference. The title of the poster is “Learning About Life in the US: A pilot Study on the Information Behavior of Nigerian Diasporans.”
August 2023: My first research trip to Kenya.
May 2023: I interned at Symplicity in Arlington, Virginia, as a Design Researcher.
June 2024: I co-authored a chapter in a book titled “Digital Ecosystem in Africa: Unfolding Regulatory Practices, Gaps, and Trends.”
November 2022: I served as a panelist at the LocWorld conference.
November 2021: I co-authored an article that was published in the IEEE journal Best Practices for Community Engagement in Smart Cities.
August 2021: I received the Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) award for Incoming Graduate Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 2021: I was accepted into the Ph.D. program at the Information School (iSchool) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
May 2021: Yay!!! I have officially graduated from Ball State University with an M.A. in Political Science and an M.S.C. in Information Communication Science.
August 2019: I was accepted to begin my M.Sc program in the Center for Information and Communication Sciences at Ball State University
May 2019: I received a conference grant through the Sponsored Projects Aspire Internal Grant program at Ball State University, Muncie, IN.
August 2018: I was accepted to begin my Master’s program in the Department of Political Science at Ball State University