Terence Ngwa

Dr. Terence Ngwa is a veteran educator and organizational leader with over 20 years of national and international professional service and expertise. He has worked for many years to ensure an effective voice for educators, parents, and students in the K-12 setting. His work has successfully and repeatedly brought together education stakeholders to collaborate on improving outcomes for students, especially group from historically marginalized backgrounds.

Dr. Ngwa earned a bachelor’s degree in French and English from the University of Yaoundé in his native Cameroon before emigrating to the United States. He has since served in various education roles: in Washington DC as a middle school teacher, exchange student program coordinator, union representative and ultimately Washington Teachers Union Executive Director. While serving in these roles, Dr. Ngwa earned a master’s degree in educational leadership from Trinity Washington University, a Doctoral Degree in organizational leadership from Southeastern University, and certificates in Diversity and Inclusion and Collective Bargaining from Cornell University.

In 2021, Dr. Ngwa was selected to lead a new graduate-level certificate program in school leadership in the School of Education at American University in Washington DC. He currently serves as a senior professorial lecturer and teaches various courses in curriculum design for the classroom, school improvement, organization, and administration at the graduate level. He also teaches social justice in urban education at the undergraduate level. Dr. Ngwa has designed and developed culturally responsive and inclusive content for school leadership preparation, supervised aspiring principals' internship experiences, designed and led experiential learning exchanges to Europe and West Africa. He currently directs the Antiracist Administration, Supervision, and Leadership Certificate Program and the International Training and Education Program within the School of Education. Dr. Ngwa is passionate about social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion and antiracist initiatives in education, and these are at the core of his commitment to education.