Mandla Kayise

Mandla Kayise was a leader and organizer of the Alliance for Equal Opportunity in Education (AEOE) and its successful campaign to increase African American enrollment at UCLA and throughout the UC system. Kayise is a founder of the UCLA Campus Retention Committee and Student Retention Center and founding project director of UCLA’s first student-initiated, student-run retention project, the Academic Supports Program, Kayise has maintained a lifelong commitment to improving education outcomes, enhancing the quality of life in our communities and advancing the cause of equity and justice on behalf of African Americans and other marginalized groups and communities. Kayise is lead Facilitator for the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance’s Education Committee and Board Advisor for the Hyde Park Organizational Partnership for Empowerment (HOPE). He serves as a Board member for UCLA Black Alumni Association, CADRE and the Cal Poly Pomona TRiO Programs Advisory Board. Founder and CEO of New World Education, he is consultant to several programs serving K-12, community college and university students and parents and a number of education and community organizing groups.