Achille Tenkiang is a program assistant for the Humanities in Place at the Mellon Foundation. He is also director at the Boarding School and was formerly a trustee at Princeton University. He served as President of the African Students Association and the Black Leadership Coalition, working with the administration to promote awareness of African issues and secure funding for programming to create more positive experiences for students of color on campus. Achille also worked on initiatives to promote professional opportunities for Black collegians to close the unemployment gap. After graduating in 2017, he was awarded a fellowship to work for an arts and youth empowerment NGO in Nairobi, Kenya where he held poetry and music workshops for migrant youth looking to navigate urban life. Achille studied Race, Migration and Decolonial Studies at University College Dublin. He attended Princeton University where he was the first student to ever receive a degree African Studies.