Achille Tenkiang

Achille Tenkiang serves as a senior program assistant for Humanities in Place.

Prior to joining Mellon, Achille served as an international arbitration legal assistant at White and Case LLP in Paris, France. He is a founding member of BLOC, an online professional network for historically disadvantaged collegians of color, and a founder of the Roots Scholars Program, which promotes education access in Cameroon.

He holds a BA in African studies and development from Princeton, where he was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, and an MA in race, migration, and decolonial studies from the University College Dublin, where he was a Mitchell Scholar. He is a director at the Boarding School, which educates, places, and supports young leaders on boards of institutions impacting their futures, and was formerly a trustee at Princeton University.