Agrippa O. Ezozo (aezozo@sbcglobal.net) is the Founder and President of The African Diaspora Foundation. (www.theadf.com) He was the former president of the UCLA Black Faculty and Staff Association and co-chair of the California delegation to the National Summit on Africa. A Benefits Analyst at UCLA and publisher of The Black Church Review magazine. He was the past Executive Director of the League of Patriotic Nigerians in Los Angeles, California.

Born in Nigeria, he graduated from Wudil Teacher's College Kano and subsequently became a teacher at Kundila Primary School in Kano, Nigeria. He immigrated to California in 1981 to attend Los Angeles Trade Technical College, and later attended and graduated from California State University at Dominguez Hills with a B.S. in Computer Information Systems, and the University of California, Los Angeles with an M.A. in African Areas Studies, with emphasis on Public Policy in 2001.