Randell Zuleka Dauda is a doctoral student in the Planning, Governance and Globalization program at Virginia Tech. She received her Master’s degree in Higher Education from Northeastern University in Boston. Her current research interest centers on race and power structures in international programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Randell works as a Graduate Assistant for Outreach with the Global Engineering, Engagement and Research Office. She prides herself on being a community organizer and loves working with diverse populations to collaborate on efforts to secure social change. In her free time, she curates African stories online to counter the too often voiced narrative of a “helpless” continent. She loves traveling, dressing and playing Mas in Caribbean carnivals and being an aunt to a spoiled Maltese.