A Vital Matters Voice: Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper
Mamyrah
Dougé-Prosper
Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies
University of California, Irvine
BIOGRAPHY
Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper is an activist and assistant professor of global and international studies at the University of California, Irvine. Prosper earned her Ph.D. at Florida International University and spent a year as a teaching postdoctoral fellow at North Carolina State University. From there, she was awarded a multi-year postdoctoral fellowship at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where she worked with the Center for Place, Culture and Politics as well as the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC). Prosper serves as the international coordinator for the Pan-African Solidarity Network with Community Movement Builders in the U.S. In that capacity, she is a coordinator of the Leve Kanpe Avèk Ayiti International Coalition, which includes organizations in Canada, the U.S., Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay working to amplify the struggles of the people of Haiti.
