Yeukai Mlambo

Yeukai Angela Mlambo is Director of Mastercard Foundation Digital Initiatives at ASU EdPlus and an Assistant Research Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. In her administrative role she leads the Baobab platform, a Mastercard Foundation funded digital alumni engagement and social learning platform for African youth. As a Scholar, her research centers on addressing higher education leadership representation through broadening access, inclusion and equity for underrepresented groups in higher education. In particular her work focuses on issues related to the recruitment, retention, persistence and trajectories of underrepresented populations in STEM fields. More broadly her interests include higher education institutions and faculty development in sub-Saharan Africa and the developing world, women in higher education leadership, international student experiences and the role of higher education partnerships in institutional development. Her work relies on critical frameworks which center the experiences of marginalized groups, attend to history when interrogating phenomena, and advocate for social change. Yeukai holds a PhD in Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education from Michigan State University.