Dieynaba Sall
Washington,DC
Summary
Strategic administrator with 20+ years of experience designing, scaling, and leading global programs in higher education. Proven success in driving organizational strategy, curating high-profile events, budget planning, and mobilizing cross-sector stakeholders. Skilled alumni and fellowship programming, partnership management, and board engagement. Multilingual and culturally fluent leader, bilingual in French and Wolof.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Director, Africa World Initiative
Princeton University
01.2023 - Current
- Responsible for leading the program activities of the Chinua Achebe Colloquium, Africa World Lectures, Africa World Impact Lectures, Post Doctoral fellowships and Visiting Scholars.
- Drove initiatives such as the Africa Archives Project, Africa Innovation Council (AIC), and African Languages & Artificial Intelligence.
- Collaborated closely with the director to identify speakers for the lectures series, symposium speakers, and workshops participants.
- Conducted outreach to guest speakers including heads of states, political leaders, diplomats, acclaimed authors, and even a Nobel laureate.
- Put together high-impact events by liaising with university partners to book space, audio-visual support, and security.
- Negotiated with vendors for photography, entertainment, catering, and transportation.
- Planned event advertisement, including print and digital advertisement placing, directed social media campaigns, and wrote press releases for all events.
- Supervised events posters design and reviewed the final posters for printing and distribution.
- Orchestrated elaborate dinners to honor the featured guests at private and exclusive locations.
- Built and tracked events budgets using Labor Accounting for accuracy and good measure.
- Led strategic initiatives to enhance departmental operations and improve service delivery.
- Collaborated with faculty and staff to align departmental goals with university objectives.
French Instructor II
United States Foreign Service Institute
01.2020 - 2023
- Facilitated 35 hours of weekly in-person immersive French language and culture instruction to United States diplomats with upcoming duty stations in France and francophone countries.
- Designed lesson plans and assessments, graded assignments, and provided up to 5 hours of one-on-one student counseling per participant.
- Using diverse teaching methodologies such as the Direct Method and Communicative Approach, trained students in listening, speaking and talking skills in professional settings covering geopolitical, social and cultural topics of their assigned regions.
- Collaborated with other teachers and resource managers to develop training modules for all 5 IRL levels of French.
- 100% of students reported successfully passing their OPI exams to the next level on the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale.
Sales Representative/Education Specialist/Trainer
Cambridge University Press
01.2015 - 01.2020
- Responsible for creating effective and innovative sales solutions that addressed the challenges faced by K-12 schools, Universities, teachers and students.
- Employed consultative sales techniques including targeted email blasts, pre-call planning, in-person visits and productive questioning strategies that lead to winning business.
- Conducted teacher training in curriculum mapping, lesson planning and assessments.
- Demonstrated superb organizational and follow-up abilities using Salesforce.
- Maintained product knowledge around Cambridge University Press print materials and technologies.
- Stayed abreast of the Education industry and factors influencing the market environment.
- Demonstrated teamwork through sharing best practices and working with cross-functional teams.
- Built strong partnerships with administrators, teachers, and faculty members.
Teacher
Montgomery County Public Schools
01.2011 - 01.2015
- Facilitated the learning of French language and culture using a variety of instructional methods, resources and technological tools.
- Designed task-oriented activities and games to engage students for better language acquisition.
- Tailored classes to students' learning styles by designing activities specific to their needs.
- Assessed students' progress and used data to set learning objectives and make adjustments to lesson plans.
- Collaborated with fellow teachers to streamline lesson planning, share creative activities and accelerate student learning.
- 99% of middle and high school students in my classes scored 4.5 out of 5 at a minimum, and passed to the next grade.
Education
Master’s - Teaching
American University
Washington, DC01-2012
Bachelor of Science, Marketing & Bachelor of Arts - Romance Languages -French & Spanish
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland01-1989
Skills
- Budget Management
- Partnerships
- Business Development
- Event Planning
- Board Engagement
- Data analysis
- Teaching & Training
- Instructional Design
Timeline
Assistant Director, Africa World Initiative
Princeton University
01.2023 - Current
French Instructor II
United States Foreign Service Institute
01.2020 - 2023
Sales Representative/Education Specialist/Trainer
Cambridge University Press
01.2015 - 01.2020
Teacher
Montgomery County Public Schools
01.2011 - 01.2015
Bachelor of Science, Marketing & Bachelor of Arts - Romance Languages -French & Spanish
University of Maryland
Master’s - Teaching
American University
Presentations
● “Cooperative Learning,” National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Tucson, Arizona, 2017
● “Cambridge Latin Classic: What is New?,” Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey (FLENJ), New Brunswick, NJ, 2017
● “Real Realidad in the Teaching of Foreign Languages,” Foreign Language Association of Georgia (FLAG), Atlanta, GA, 2016
● “Universal Development Learning Applications in the Teaching of Foreign Languages,” Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL), New York, NY, 2016
● “Experiential Learning,” Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT), Charlotte, NC, 2016
● “Mobilizing and Promoting African Diaspora Technical and Scientific Expertise for Development,” Education, Science, Technology and African Development, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2011