Azah Ningo
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Azah Ningo
Program CoordinatorAs the Program Coordinator, Azah is in charge of communications, student employees, general programming, and the occasional pop-up visit from a student needing to chat. Azah brings ten years of experience working with exchange students in the high school sphere, participating in the U.S. Department of State’s public diplomacy program. She was third in command at a small nonprofit exchange organization for seven years, helping grow the organization from 25 summer students to 125 academic-year students across the United States, plus 50 summer students.
In college many of Azah’s friends were international students and she watched as several struggled while trying to acclimate. Her international friends enriched her life in immeasurable ways, and she is thrilled to pay it forward by helping the next generation of students. A product of a dual-culture upbringing, Azah was born in Upstate New York and moved to Cameroon, West Africa at the age of six. She lived there until high school. She obtained her bachelor’s degree right here at Duke University (class of 2002, go blue devils!) with a major in Psychology, a minor in French, and a certificate in Education. Azah specializes in mid- and late- adolescent development, women’s advocacy, and cross-cultural communication. Her hope in the future is to leverage her experience to develop integration programming–her wish is to enhance connections between Duke’s international and domestic populations, and to create links between the international population at university and Durham at large. In her spare time, Azah enjoys watching global language tv series and movies, reading, math and crossword puzzles, world music, walking extremely slowly, live music, telling jokes only she enjoys, and spending time with her friends’ Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha children learning new slang. There is a whole new world of language out there.