Did you know room 370 of the Student Center became the International Student Association (ISA) office in 1999 when the new addition was added to the Student Center?

Prior to this ISA did not have an office. Their properties and information were housed with or in the office of the Advisor. Now ISA has their own office. As of Summer 2004 the line item organization called the International Student Association has only had three Advisors.
ISA Advisors
Dr. Jerome Ratchford
Ms. Paula Falerno-Jones
Ms. Charmayne B. Richardson

History of ISA
(Recorded in the Cultural Awareness and Resource Center 1997)

(Charmayne B. Richardson, Director-Cultural Awareness and Resource Center, speaking.)
This is Charmayne B. Richardson working with Mary Zogby and Frank Pintozzi to record the history of the International Student Association.

(Mary Gogby speaking).
This is Mary Zogby, I should say I am Mary Zogby, Professor of English here at Kennesaw State University where I have taught for… this would be my 22nd year. The international students on the campus have been wonderful for me over the years. I feel that they have educated me in many ways. They've also been a delightful part of my experience here, so I am happy to recount briefly a little bit of the history of the International Student Association and my experience and association with those students. The International Student Association was formed and developed by a group of Palestinian students who first formed the Palestinian Student Association. Then after a few years they decided to draw in other students to participate with them and change the organization to an International Student Organization. What they did at that time was to simply to let the Palestinian Student Association go inactive, so to speak. They formed the International Student Association which had two Palestinian officers, an Afgan student as President, and a student of another nationality, I can't recall who that fourth officer was at that time. But let me briefly say that when I first came to this campus, the Palestinian students all considered themselves as Lebanese students. That's what was on their passports. They were pretty much hesitant to say that they had any other nationality. As a matter of fact, prior to the development of their organization, there had been a foreign language club, which was called The International Club, with an emphasis on, I think, the events and types of programs that were advantageous to students studying French and Spanish. The Advisor was Professor Judith Barbin. I remember Dr. Barbin saying to me at some point, "All the students that were Lebanese last year, are Palestinians this year. What happened (it was after the time that Jimmy Carter said on public television that Palestinians had human rights)?"

I said, "What happened is that President Carter said publicly that Palestinians had human rights."
It was at that time that Andrew Young was dismissed from his post at the United Nations because he had negotiated behind the scenes with Palestinians as United States Ambassador to the UN. Well, the International Club with Dr. Judy Holzman also participated with that, but that club pretty much emphasized foreign language students and their activities, so there was really no club that international students identified with. Then in 1982 there was a massacre of Palestinians in Lebanon, the massacre in the Sherborn Tequila camps. So many of our students had come from those camps and they'd come here on PLO scholarships. As a matter of fact some of them came to my office. I had taught some of them in my English classes. They came really in tremendous distress at the time of that massacre. They had parents and relatives there in Lebanon, who had been living as refugees for some time, at least some perhaps since the '67 War, some before that time after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. These students had grown up in those refugee camps. When that massacre occurred, I think it probably became less tolerable for them to describe themselves as Lebanese. The massacre was carried out by right wing militia, a right wing Christian phalange militia of the Marinade Christian Church with the collaboration and cooperation of the Israeli army that had surrounded the camps on all sides under the command of General Ariel Sharon.

The phalange militia then went in and just slaughtered the women, children, and as the student said the animals also in the camp. The fighting men had been escorted out together with Yassar Arafat. Shortly before that, they had been escorted out with the help of United States forces. They had left from Tripoli and other parts of Lebanon and left the people in this camp very vulnerable. It was a terrible experience for all of us, even just to read about it or hear about it. Then these students had first-hand connections with it and at that point, they decided they wanted to form a Palestinian Student Organization. I could see it was important to them at that time to be recognized in that way. They had to go before the Student Government. I had to go before the faculty. At that time the whole faculty approved every student organization. An organization of students, which was called the Student Affairs Counsel, approved every new student organization. It took months to get the approval from that organization. There was not much opposition from the faculty. The first time it came before the faculty group it was approved within the matter of about 20 or 30 minutes. But we went to the Student Affairs Counsel again and again and students objected. Finally the students said, "Well, they can have the organization", but they couldn't have the word Palestinian in the title. They couldn't call it a Palestinian Student Association because they said "If we have a Palestinian Student Association on our campus" one student said, "people will think that we are a bunch of terrorists". And another student said, "Well, it sounds too much like PLO, well, Palestinian Student Association, PLA that sounds like PLO". So that went on and on but finally the students got their organization.

The very opposition to the organization showed how important it was for our student body to be able to recognize that Palestinians are not by definition terrorists. Those two words are not synonyms. So, they founded their organization. They had a number of programs. Because of the controversial nature of their very name at the time in this country, we had wonderful attendance at the programs. They had the informational programs about the Palestinians, about the political situation at the present time. We even had reporters come all the way over from the Atlanta Journal Constitution to take pictures and write articles. There was an article in the paper about one of the programs that the students had. They had a number of wonderful programs for a year or two.

They began to realize after a while though, that the audience was dwindling and that most of the audience was composed of those who were empathetic to them or sympathetic to their views, or at least not hostile to their views. They did get certain people who knew the program was going on, who came because they were hostile to the group, but they were mostly preaching to the choir we say. So they decided that they shouldn't just have their own club, but that they should form an International Student Association.

I should add that they had social events too; they had some wonderful dinners, international dinners. Usually we had those at my house. We had about 30 members. We had a lot of Palestinian students here. Even though I offered to cook for them, they would all cook and bring all kinds of wonderful Middle Eastern foods. They had some very good times together. But after two or three years, they decided to form the International Student Association. They had nominated Dalud Sofie, a student from Afghanistan to be president. Rodwan Ali, who for many years, until last week was our computer expert, helping all of us in our offices with our problems, was the first treasurer. He was a young freshman or sophomore at that time. Ibrahim Eljaya who was the predecessor of Rodwan in the computer services area, academic computer services, was one of the officers as well. There was another officer whom I have forgotten; I should look into my records for that. But those were the students, two Palestinians and two students from other countries who were the first officers. They, with the help of Student Affairs at the time, particularly Frank Wilson, developed the constitution and by-laws. Really the students did most of it themselves.

When the students found the Palestinian Student Association they came to me and first I told them I didn't have time. I was Chair of Development Studies and I also taught two classes. I was active in the English Department that I had come from. I didn't have time to advise it but I would try to find them an Advisor. But I could not find them an Advisor. I ended up serving as the Advisor to the Palestinian Student Association and then to the International Student Association over the period of 8 years. The International Student Association had again, similar programs to those that the Palestinian students had. They had wonderful trips to the North Georgia Mountains. They had parties at Christmas time and other big times of the year of this country. We had help from Gene Huck in the History Department. He was always a great friend of international students. He would some times have events in his house or if not, they would have them at my house. We also, occasionally, had big Welcome Days and dinners for international students on campus at the beginning of the school year. Some times we prepared the food. Some times we used the $300 that each club had to have hot dogs, making sure that we didn't had beef hot dogs. We had some vegetarian food as well. We would sometimes have a cookout on campus, bring our own little barbecue pits and put them all over the place, little grills I mean and grill hot dogs. We could do that for $300 and have nice picnics on campus at the beginning of the year, so that we could provide some sort of welcome to students as school was beginning. The students also, of course, had the International Student Festival each year. They cooked foods and wore their native dress. Students from various countries participated. We had I suppose in the 80s, in the early 80s or mid80s, about 200 international students. We thought that was a great many. They were from about 28 countries; now of course that number has just risen dramatically over the years. Dr. Frank Pintozzi came to Kennesaw particularly because of his expertise in ESL work in the school and university where he was at the time. I had wanted to add ESL to our Development Studies Program and was interested in having him come. That was one of the reasons why I was interested in having him join our faculty. He was recruited to Kennesaw and came to teach during that time and was a wonderful supporter and participator with his wife and children in the affairs and activities of the international students. Then I will ask him, is that right Charmayne? I'll ask Frank to add information about the time that he came and joined with us in these events.

(Frank Pintozzi speaking). Thank you Mary. Well, I came on board about… I'm looking back to my records here, the little records that I do have left from my time as advisor of International Students. One of the things that I do have is the date: Jan 1st,1990, a note to Monsor, who used to be president, I believe of the association. So, that's the time that I sort of, think that I started to get involved in the International Student Association, from 1990 until about 1995 or 1996, something like that. During that time of course, Mary had paved the way for this group through her efforts and Dr. Hawkins, some of the early faculty that had been here. I guess that what my role was to continue and develop the organization further and to keep it thriving here on campus. What my role was basically was to facilitate meetings of the officers and of the organization on campus. We did have a revised constitution that we established with some changes during that time. We also had further development of activities, for example we took trips to Washington DC and New York City. We would take busloads of students. We also got connected more directly with Dr. Ratchford's office in Student Development. Dr. Ratchford facilitated the organization by giving us funding, helping us with the funding aspect, because as Mary mentioned, the organization began to expand in the number of international students on campus. There was more of a need for services and activities and of course, funding that would support all of that and Dr. Ratchford was very good at helping us to get the funding, and also to provide… sort of a place where we could meet, and in terms of getting us recognized on campus. We did continue of course with the international festivals every spring. They moved to the springtime and became larger and larger as we had entertainment. We had the food of course and the artifacts, which you'd find at the tables. Then, we started to initiate the idea of a passport which people would get as they went around to each country and tasted the food and interacted with the members of that country. They would get a stamp, and eventually they would get a T-shirt, that sort of thing, that became kind of a tradition that we've continued. In addition, I did help students in facilitating some seminars that were on issues relating to conflicts on campus between international issues and the international students and other students on campus. And making the faculty aware of the differences and the similarities between the international students and our own students, and also helping them in terms of strategies and techniques that they could use in classroom to help students become more comfortable with the American classroom and how we teach here in the United States. Such issues for example, as plagiarism, which we were talking about before, sometimes, what we call Cooperative Learning, or they call Cooperative Learning, we would call cheating. Simply it is a perception in terms of how people learn and understand and sometimes the importance of the group is more important than the individual. Therefore the whole group has to survive. It's not just one person that has to be the best, it's everybody. If everybody looks good, then you'll look good. So that's a little different philosophy than what we are used to. We have a more competitive system here in the United States, but I think it's been a learning experience for all of us to have these students on campus. During my time, also with the International Student Association, we began to have them come and speak to classes on campus. For example, I invited students into my graduate classes to talk about cultural issues in the School of Education and History Department, Political Science. In fact, encouraged them to do so, because it was helping people to be aware…

(Mary Zogby speaking). Frank, you remind me of something that I should add that the students did early on that was a wonderful sort of education like that and talking to classes. The International Students put their names on the Speaker's Bureau that used to operate from the Dean's Office. Shirley Bralmly had a Speaker's Bureau. Any faculty member could volunteer to be in the Speaker's Bureau on a specific topic. I put my name in as moderator for international students, who would talk about their international experience and their experience here in this country as students. The students gave wonderful presentations everywhere. All I did was share the panel, but we went to the Rotary Club and Woodstock and Marietta and Smyrna. We went to Dobbins Air Force Base to speak to groups there. We went to Walker High School twice. What they did was have the students give the panel to the entire student body and four years later, they invited us back because they had a completely different student body by then. But the students gave a wonderful presentation to the entire student body at Joseph Walker High School twice. In those programs that they gave and related their experience, we had four or five students on the panel. Very often people in the audience would ask a student from Germany or a student from France or students from Kenya or of some particular country about some issue that was in the news at the time. So that they were like the experts there, I mean, they really were. It might have been a small matter. It might have been some great conflict that was going on, Liberia or some place. So, that was one of the great educational programs that they did and that carried on for some time. They also sponsored speakers from off campus to come and speak. Fahed Abu-Akel who is the person who is the director and has been for many years that large international association…

(Frank Pintozzi). AMIS, AMIS…

(Mary Zogby). Yes, AMIS, the Director of AMIS he came many, many times. The Palestinian students invited him, the international students invited him. He actually came on campus to participate in a debate with Rabbi Shilo Luis, from a synagogue in East Marietta. It was the first time that people on this campus, we had on the platform a Jewish speaker and a Palestinian speaker, both clergymen talking about the issues. That particular program was sponsored by the Middle East Task Force, which I happened to be chairing at that time, but I only knew Fahed Abu-Akel. I met him through the international students. When there were various programs in Atlanta, the students would tell us and that is another way in which they were part of my education. I went with them to programs in Atlanta and met speakers from all over the country that I wouldn't have otherwise met and people at Emory, sometimes at the temple in downtown Atlanta. So, there were lots of ways in which students from various countries have educated me here over the years besides educating the general public. Another thing the students did that I should mention is that they put out a little publication early on called "To Be Free." This publication was put out by students from Vietnam. They had been boat people, students who had escaped from Afghanistan, students who had escaped from Iran, and they had written. It came to my attention because in my English class they had written papers about this experiences. So we decided we would do a little booklet about these students who had really gone through great trouble and had come here as refugees. Those stories are quite remarkable. Once they put the booklet out, the Kennesaw Magazine got hold of it. They interviewed the students and wrote an article on them. Then the Marietta Journal got the information from the Kennesaw Magazine. They came and took pictures of some of these students and recounted some of their stories in the newspaper. Frank, you reminded me too of the fact that some years ago, at the opening of the school, we had workshops for faculty where the international students were again the panel. They talked to the entire faculty in small groups. We had several different groups in workshops and they would go from one workshop to the other…

(Frank Pintozzi). Isn't that part of our Human Relations Task Force?

(Mary Zogby). It was before the years of the Human Relations Task Force, we did it with Human Relations Task Force later, but it was simply our efforts to have faculty, you reminded me of it, understand more of what international students were doing and had gone through. And not just in the classroom, but before they got here because that has been one of the most amazing things; a student once told, I remember telling the faculty about leaving Vietnam on a boat and he was on a boat with his father, his parents, his mother and his sisters, excuse me, his mother, sisters and brothers were in another boat, it was just he and the one parent on a boat. All of his brothers and sisters starved to death and died on the boat, because they never, they couldn't land anywhere, they couldn't go anywhere and as he said, they ran out of petrol, gas, he said they run out of petrol. They had no water and no food, after escaping. That was the fate of many boat people; then the student said "Then one day President Carter gave the command that the marines, that the sailing American vessels were not to pass up the Vietnamese refugees". So they were picked up by a marine vessel. He said marine, it might have been sailors, navy, whatever, they were picked up by a vessel who took them to the Philippine Islands so just he and one parent survived. The amazing thing is here are these kids at this school now and they are studying and making A's and writing well and you know, it's just remarkable what they have been able to do. I remember a Jewish student told us he escaped from Iran, Maurus Ibrahim Sadah, riding a donkey through the mountains.

The first students that we had when we I first came here, who were kind of refugee situations, were the various students from Iran at the time of Ayatollah Khomeini. But we had lots of experiences, we had an experience here with Nigerian students who were harassed by the police, for example and arrested. We had all kinds of students who'd gone through various trauma in their own countries. Then occasionally, unfortunately, a few who have had some trouble here. So, that was an education for me, to realize that those students could be the victims of prejudice and discrimination from law enforcement officers to the extent that it could happen over such a long period of time and so many people had to be involved in trying to make some kind of plea for them and try to make some kind of justice.

One of the people involved in that was Dr. Rugg, who actually was arrested and went to be fingerprinted and all this because he was accused of obstructing justice by not letting the campus police arrest these students and hand them over to somebody else when they happened to have sneaked back onto campus though being arrested by the outside police. They've come back here to take their final exam because they had been out of class for a couple of weeks and had been detained in jail as well. But Dr. Rugg and Dr. Pete Silver both were arrested because of their standing up for those students in various ways.

But mostly of course, students have come here and they have wonderful experiences. Those are experiences that they recount in that little booklet "To be Free". I'll have to get a copy of that to you Charmayne, I think I may have only one left, so I need to Xerox that. But, all we did within my time in the International Student Association was stay in this area. We went to the Georgia Mountains, had wonderful picnics and outings and boating trips. We saw what was around us in Atlanta, North Georgia, but we never got to Washington until Dr. Ratchford came. Until Dr. Jerome Ratchford came, the Dean of Student Activities told me at some point in time that Dr. Ratchford actually had in his contract that he would be in charge of International Students as well as the African-American Student Alliance. He had come as an Advisor to that group. So at that point, I decided that he would really be the best Advisor for them anyway because he wasn't teaching, as I was teaching all the day and not as available as he would be. I was also told that he could get money for them because he would know how to do that, because he was involved in that administrative line, he was over there in student activities and I was over here in academics. So I decided that would be a good time for him to take care of the international students and he did pick it up at that time, that probably might have been around ten years ago, if I'm guessing correctly. I know that I served as their Advisor for eight years and then Dr. Jerome Ratchford came and then you would have gotten involved in it. Then when Dr. Ratchford was promoted, you stayed as the faculty advisor, but I mostly mention Jerome here because he's done so much for International Students over the years.

(Frank Pintozzi). The International Students to have influenced another thing that I can think of is, our curriculum here at Kennesaw. I think through as we've gotten more and more international students and their influence was felt more greatly by Dr. Siegel. Some of the events that we sponsored, well, you have come to some of these I think it even affected the direction that we've been moving in terms of understanding our global society, the greater global society in which we are part and Dr. Siegel is very interested in the internationalization of the campus. I attribute that, a great deal to our International Student Association, the Advisors, Mary, myself and all the others that have been involved within the years, in building awareness, sensitivity to the world, a greater world that is outside of us here on campus. As a result, we have international programs on campus, such as Study Abroad that have increased tremendously. In fact, some of our international students have actually taken part in the Study Abroad programs. Which is even an interesting dimension because those who are international come to an international country like the United States and are "internationalized" by going to places like Mexico, France or China and become more and more aware of the larger world. So this to me, has been one of the spin-offs or one of the influences of this organization that perhaps we, take for granted sometimes without realizing…

(Mary Zogby). We had the International Diplomatic Corp that Allan LeBaron advises.

(Frank Pintozzi). Exactly, the International Diplomatic Corp was an out growth, also of the International Student Association. The reason for that of course, was that there was even a greater need to begin the process of internationalizing the campus in a different kind of way; by helping students to support themselves financially. The fact that they came from other countries, they had to pay twice or three times the tuition coming into Georgia. I worked with Dr. Keene, Dr. LeBaron in doing a committee to develop the idea of an International Diplomatic Corp, which would allow students to get tuition reductions for community service and for educational outreach about their countries and their cultures and their languages. This became the beginning… this was about… I'm trying to think now when that occurred but it might have been '94, '93, '94 the International Diplomatic Corp… which actually I became a part of, through a committee because I was representing International Student Association. As that organization developed of course, we had, at another dimension to internationalism in campus, we have a… is sort of a presenting of credentials each fall by members of the international student community, who would dress up in their native costumes in some cases and present their credentials to Dr. Siegel and Dr. Keene, and Deans and so on. Then the whole faculty invited the students and this became an annual event now, which of course is part of the International Diplomatic Corp, to in a sense honor internationalism by welcoming international students on campus and having them present their credentials just as they would in the United Nations or going to a foreign embassy, they have to present their credentials. I think I see more and more the internationalization of campus and that the International Student Association and the International Diplomatic Corp are going to facilitate that internationalization through the efforts of other Advisors now that we have such as Charmayne Richardson and Dr. Ratchford's continuing development and Dr. Keene, and so on, these individuals are continuing the traditions that we have come to appreciate through the International Student Association. Also, I should mention too that the Midway Presbyterian Church has been involved each year and as far as I know continues to be involved in welcoming students to campus. This is sort of their church outreach service or whatever to the community and that began to occur while I was involved in the association. And this continues and I think it is a wonderful way for the community to reach out to these students and welcome them in, in some cases of course it has been involved with housing or financial support. They've done other things besides just the food part. We have other organizations that I think have been involved in the community that provide help to these students. But the interest and the wealth of knowledge and benefit that we can achieve through the International Student Association and the international students on campus, is really beyond our imagination. I think we have a wonderful resource in our midst and that, if we can just continue relating to them and try to facilitate their adjustment here on campus; but also to learn from them, as well, because what they bring is the knowledge of the world, the outside world and we are increasingly becoming an international society here in the United States.

Within our own borders we continue to accept immigrants, refugees from many parts of the world; as well as our own populations that are very diverse. We are a model of what can happen when various cultures, races, and ethnicities come together and try to form a society, a cohesive society. Although there are challenges with this, there are also wonderful rewards, which I think can be a model for other countries who are dealing with in some cases ethnic strife, differences in religion, differences in racial, economics, socioeconomic differences within their own countries. To see how this all works in the United States, how it can work, that is something that we could share with the world. But at the same time, we have a wonderful opportunity to learn about how to deal with other cultures and languages as well.

I see the Foreign Languages Department becoming more and more involved with this as well, because to learn other languages and to learn other cultures I think is a wonderful way to do business, politically, economically, socially, whatever way you want to interact. I have to say, on a personal note too that my own education as Mary shared as a professional; a faculty member has undergone a transformation as well. I had become much more knowledgeable about the international issues and international thinking through my involvement with the International Student Association. In addition, I have traveled because of my involvement with the students. I found that when I met with a student, learned about their lives and listened to what they said, it was almost like visiting another country, it was getting a picture of what it is like to be in Kenya, or in India or China or in Russia. So, during that time I was Advisor, I began to travel under the sponsorship with the college. I went to Russia twice, took faculty as well as business people to Moscow through the Friendship Force here in Atlanta, but also co-sponsored by Kennesaw State University through the International Affairs Office. Dr. Keene provided the funding for me to do that as well as the Friendship Force itself. It was through that that I became truly internationalized because for the first time, other than going to Canada, which I did when I was younger, I had never set foot outside of this country. So, when I went to Russia of course, it was truly a culture shock; also I went to Amsterdam, London - since then I've been to Mexico and I've been to Italy. I've had a chance to experience what it's like to be an international by going to other places around the world. I bring it back into my classes. I find it enriching because I can always relate stories to my own experiences and tell that to my students in my graduate courses and my undergraduate courses. That also stirs an interest in international knowledge and travel and study abroad and that sort of thing, which I think all students should have a chance to participate in while they're in college at least once. If not more than once because I think it makes you a more well rounded person and more responsive to the people that are different from yourself. That I think… is all that I can think of.

(Charmayne Richardson). That's impressive.

ISA Officers and Coordinators: 1995-2006

1995-1996 Officers
Hope Idiong - Nigeria - President 1995-1996
Julius Ogachi - Treasurer

1996-1997 Officers
Olatunji (Tunji, TJ) Ashiru - Nigeria - President 1996-1997
Virginia (Gina) Garino Langhorne - Philippines - Vice President 1996-1997
M. Cecilia Nash - Philippines - Treasurer 1996-1997
Christine (Cristina) Parman - Puerto Rico - Secretary 1996-1997

1997-1998 Officers
Silvia C. Serrano - Colombia - President 1997-1998
Pablo J. Martinez - Venezuela - Vice President 1997-1998
Enrique Castilli - Venezuela - Treasurer 1997
Christine (Cristina) Parman - Puerto Rico - Secretary 1997-1998

1999-2000 Officers
Yemi Thompson - Nigeria - President 1999-2000
Jessica Skold - Sweden - Vice President 1999-2000
Olanike A. (Nike) Makanjuola - Nigeria - Treasurer 1999
Mouna Hakimi - France - Treasurer 2000
Selma Aydin - Turkey - Secretary 1999-2000

2000-2001 Officers
Olanike A. (Nike) Makanjuola - Nigeria - President 2000-2001
Selma Aydin - Turkey - Vice President 2000-2001
Pervis Taylor - Jamaica - Vice President 2000-2001
Raymond Cunliffe - Canada - Treasurer 2000-2001
Stephanie Wijesinghe - Sri Lanka Secretary 2000-2001
Coordinators
Erdal Yazicinglu -Turkey -Athletics 2000-2001
Marko Horn -Germany - Athletics 2000-2001
Andre Plummer - Jamaica - Athletics 2000-2001
Gwen Menga -Cameroon - Awards 2000-2001
Gloria Downey - Mexico - Awards 2000-2001
Purnima Raj Purohit -India- International Festival 2000-2001
Corey Schuman -USA - ISONET 2000-2001
Kolawole (Kola) Ashiru - Nigeria - ISONET 2000-2001
Thinh Ly - Viet Nam - Travel and Social 2000-2001
Nicky Jones - USA - Travel and Social 2002-2001

2001-2002 Officers
Daniel Ikpechukwu - Nigeria - President 2001-2002
Nahir Torres Aranda - Venezuela - President
Virna Loggiodice - Venezuela - Vice President 2001-2002
Fadeyemi (Fade) Adelakun - Nigeria - Treasurer 2001-2002
Irma M. Lara - Venezuela - Secretary 2001-2002
Coordinators
Ifeanyi (Obi) Okpareke -Nigeria - Athletics 2001-2002
Tobias Quosigk -Germany - Awards 2001-2002
Stephanie Wijesinghe - Sri Lanka - International Festival 2001-2002
Odianosen (Odi) Agenmonmen - Nigeria - International Festival 2001-2002
Kolawole (Kola) Ashiru -Nigeria - ISONET 2001-2002
Odianosen (Odi) Agenmonmen - Nigeria - 2001-2002
Andre Plummer - Jamaica - Travel and Social 2001-2002

2003-2004
Chinyere (ChiChi) Agbara - Nigeria - President   2003-2004
Szymon (Simon) Stojek - Russia - Vice President   2003
Derrick Lawman - Jamaica - Vice President  2003-2004
Andrew Muriithi - Kenya - Treasurer   2003-2004
Ruth Ezonnaebi - Nigeria - Secretary  2003-2003
Coordinators
Claude Levegue - Haiti - Coordinator of Athletics – 2003-2004
Moses Ngone - Kenya - Coordinator of ISONET  2003
Cleigaie Naicisse - Jamaica - Coordinator of  ISONET  2003-2004
Gulherme Strougo - Guatemala - Coordinator of  International Festival 2003
Sheldon Boland - Jamaica - Coordinator of  Publicity 2003
Fred Kalu Apaka - Nigeria - Coordinator of  Publicity 2003-2004
Folasade (Sade) Ademosu-Nigeria - Coordinator of Travel and Social 2003-2004

2004-2005
Fred Kalu Akpaka - Nigeria - President  2004-2005
Remi Oyenekan - Nigeria - Vice President 2004-2005
Nicole Uchechi Ojunta - Nigeria - Secretary  2004-2005
Jessica Lowe - Jamaica - Treasurer  2004-2005
Coordinators
Patrick Arinze - Nigeria - Coordinator of Athletics 2004-2005
Anar Kamalova - Uzbekistan - Coordinator of the International Festival 2004-2005
Adel Soussa - Egypt - Coordinator of  ISONET  2004-2005
Kelly Jmarilta - Nigeria - Coordinator of  Publicity 2004-2005
Madiha Malik - Pakistan - Coordinator of Travel and Social 2004-2005

2005-2006
Jessica Lowe - Jamaica - President  2005-2006
Anar Kamalova - Uzbekistan - Vice President 2005-2006
Madiha Malik - Pakistan - Secretary  2005-2006
Ronica Brown - Jamaica - Treasurer  2005-2006