Dr. Steve Eskow
Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Steve Eskow earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education from Syracuse University, an MA degree in English from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dramatic Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the founder of the College Consortium on International Studies, a federation of 95 colleges that provides study abroad opportunities to 4,000 students annually in 30 countries; founder of the Rockland Community College Office of International Studies and its International College, which organize the college's study-abroad programs in some 20 countries, offer technical assistance to schools and colleges abroad, receive and place foreign students, and create curricula incorporating international themes; founder of the International/Intercultural Consortium of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges; chairman of its Advisory Committee; member of its Curriculum Committee; founder of the International Services Association of the Community Colleges of the State University of New York; founder of The Faith and Development Network, the Electronic University Network; and co-founder and current Chair of the Board of The Pangaea Network. Prior to his current positions, he was on the faculty of the School for Transformative Learning, California Institute of Integral Studies; Director, "Keeping America Working" Project of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleagues (1983-4); President and Chief Executive Officer, Rockland Community College (A College of the State University of New York) (1963-83); and Dean of Instruction, Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, NY (1956-63), Instructor of English; Chairperson, Division of General Education.
Eskow was the U.S. Representative to 1978 UNESCO
Symposium on Contributions of Higher Education to Community Development,
and a lecturer and consultant to Ministries of Education and colleges
and universities in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, the
Soviet Union, and India. Assignments include work in Kenya, Tanzania,
Barbados, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico,
England, France, The U.S.S.R., Israel, and India. He served as Principal
Lecturer, United States Information Agencies Seminars on community
college education, in five Indian states in 1975. He returned in 1979,
sponsored by the U.S. Fulbright Commission, to lecture in four Indian
states and conduct major international conferences on community-based
education; and in 1982, for the Asia Foundation, to plan vocational
education programs.
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Sarah Blackmun-Eskow
Director
President and Chief Operating Officer
sblackmun@pangaeanetwork.org
Sarah Blackmun-Eskow has four decades of experience as a president, CEO, and general manager of education-related international businesses. She served as the CEO of Harcourt Brace International and as President of Harcourt Brace Media Systems Corporation. She was a founder, with Dr. Eskow, of the Electronic University Network, where she served as Chief Operating Officer. She also served as COO of Durand Communications, Inc., a technology firm based in Santa Barbara.
Blackmun serves as President and Chief Operating Office of the Pangaea Network, where she coordinates research, planning, budgeting, implementation, and day-to-day operations.
In addition to her business background, Blackmun-Eskow has nonprofit and community service experience, including serving as a Commissioner of Human Services in Santa Barbara County; chair of the Justice and Outreach Council of Trinity Episcopal Church; and board member of AIDS Housing Santa Barbara. As a member of the World Mission Group of the Episcopal Diocese of California, and in her earlier position as information officer of the Episcopal Diocese of California (San Francisco), Blackmun established connections
with Episcopal and Anglican leaders in the U.S., Africa, Latin America, and the Philippines.
Blackmun-Eskow earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Ohio Wesleyan University and a Master of Arts degree from Bowling Green University. She is currently a doctoral student in the School of Human and Organizational Development of the Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California. Detailed CV
Director
Vice President for Ghana Operations
Dr Darkwa earned his first degree in Sociology & Political Science from the University of Ghana, Legon (1986). He gained admission to the University of Oslo, Norway where he completed two years of a Master's degree in Sociology Programme. He continued his studies at Washington University in St. Louis where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree (Ph.D.) in 1995.
He relocated to Ghana in August 2003, after teaching at the University of Illinois as an Assistant Professor. Back home, he took up his first appointment as a visiting lecturer with the University of Ghana, Legon, and later joined the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) in February 2005 as a senior Lecturer in Management Information Systems, Electronic Commerce and Computer Applications.
Since assuming the headship of GTUC, Dr Darkwa has facilitated institutional transformation in areas of critical importance to the university including status change, fiscal operating improvements, private funding, capital improvements, strategic planning and technological enhancements.
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Vice President,
mailto:boallaway@aol.com
Bill. Allaway founded the Education Abroad Program of the University of
California System and was its director for 35 years. He has worked with
universities in Africa, including Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, and South
Africa, as well as in other parts of the developing world and in Europe
and Asia.Dr. Allaway is the founder and chair of the UNESCO Association of Santa Barbara and is a member of the board of the United Nations Association of Santa Barbara. He is active in Goleta Presbyterian Church, where he is an elder and deacon and sings in the choir.
Dr. Allaway earned the Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
Frances A. Soulé
Secretary and
Treasurer
fsoule@pangaeanetwork.org
Ms.
Soule has 25 years of experience as an executive assistant and office
manager as well as in the publishing field in the U.S. and Europe. She
serves as the Secretary of the corporation and also as its Treasurer.
From 1980 to 1989 she provided administrative and management services for Internexus, Inc., an independent engineering consultancy operating in Munich, Germany and Rome, Italy. During the last portion of her residency in Rome, she also provided editing and publishing assistance for a financial journal, The Italian Business Review, which served the English-speaking commercial, financial and governmental organizations in Rome.
From 1989-1991, Ms. Soule worked as a copyeditor and proofreader for ABC-Clio, an international educational publisher headquartered in Santa Barbara CA. From 1991 to the present, she has been the Executive Manager of the Catholic Newman Center for students at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
John I. Soulé
Chief Technical Officer
jsoule@pangaeanetwork.org
John Soulé has 40 years' experience as a system
engineer and project manager. His roles in technology development and
applications include hardware, software and system design and
development; program management and marketing; test and evaluation; and
support of US and international marketing with requirements analysis,
product synthesis, white papers, proposals, and presentations. His main
fields of specialization are radar, microwave surveillance and
commercial security systems, communications systems; robotics; and
immersive displays. As a private consultant he was, of course,
responsible for administration of his own business.
Currently he is Pangaea’s Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, evaluating appropriate, affordable technology for solar electrical power and energy storage, water purification, rural transport, and low-cost network and computer technology for linking the remote areas of Ghana to the Internet. He also assists Pangaea’s management with data bases and planning.
From 1980 until 2007 he was an independent consultant in Europe and the United States. Principal clients included Siemens Pacesetter Inc., Sylmar, CA; Dornier GmbH, Friedrichshafen, Germany; Selenia SpA, Rome, Italy; UC Santa Barbara, CA; Crystal River Engineering, Palo Alto, CA; Sytronics Inc., Dayton, OH; and The Sherlock Group, Santa Barbara, CA.
Prior to 1989, and during the period 1996 – 2001, his employers included Raytheon, RCA, Loral Electronics Systems, and Northrop Grumman.
His professional education included UCLA, BA Mathematics (cum laude), and studies in physics, mathematics, and control system engineering at the California Institute of Technology and UC Santa Barbara.