Global Partnerships Ghana
Building Relationships While Rebuilding Communities
Global Partnerships Ghana
Building Relationships While Rebuilding Communities
Global Partnerships Ghana
Meet our team
President and Founder
Dr. Asiaki Dede Adjei-Barrett is a high school teacher, university professor, and multilingual international speaker. She has provided professional development training to educators in her home country of Ghana, as well as those in Lesotho, Pretoria, South Africa, the United States, and Germany, where she studied as a young adult. She focuses on empowering educators to utilize local resources in creating unique, community based programs. Dr. Barrett’s energetic, charismatic approach to professional training motivates educators who are overwhelmed by limited educational resources to use the creativity from within their own souls. In her own words: “I continually FIND myself while serving others. These transformative experiences relentlessly shift and develop me into a better educator, researcher, spouse, mother, sister, friend, and essentially, a better person."
Chairman of the Board
Mr. Kevin Barrett is currently an urban school administrator in Western New York. He and his wife, Dr. Anna Barrett, have embraced education as a venue for empowerment and change. Their motivation has set the trajectory for their three adult children to grow with the value of education as the foundation for their future careers and humanitarian involvement. Mr. Barrett’s career choice was inspired as he began to reflect on the needs of his birth community in the city of Baltimore, as well as his wife’s community in Ghana, West Africa. His philosophy behind servant leadership, creating relationships, and building teams has been linked to his success as a husband, parent, and leader. Mr. Barrett and his wife share the ambition of creating a school in Ghana that provides opportunities for students to globally market themselves and achieve success.
GPI Vice President
Dr. Monet Templeton is a retired bilingual educational neuropsychologist and founder of Templeton Neuro Academic Clinic, which served students with academic and socio-emotional needs throughout California. Her dedication to working with immigrant families, each with their own culturally rich history, has instilled gratitude and the inspiration to connenct with others around the world. Having grown up in the diverse California Bay Area, Dr. Templeton believes strongly in social welfare and justice. She is passionate about helping developing communities throughout the world through her work as an educator and psychologist.
GPI Board Member
Mr. Kevin Barrett Jr. is a corporate consultant at RSM in New York City. His journey included growing up in rural upstate New York and earning his Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from Rochester Institute of Technology. Mr. Barrett values the importance of setting goals early and working towards them. He is a fitness enthusiast and promotes a healthy balanced lifestyle for young adults.
GPI Board Member
Ms. Zipporah Barrett is currently in medical school, aspiring to become a gynecologist. She joined Global Partnerships because she enjoys helping others. Because so many of her family members still reside in Ghana, West Africa, Global Partnerships was the perfect organization with which to dedicate her time and passion. In her future, she would like to go back “home” to Ghana to pursue her lifelong dream of helping women and children.