Adama Sallu

Adama Sallu has extensive experience providing equity and diversity leadership in K-12 institutions. Sallu’s work focuses on areas of diversity, culturally relevant instruction and equity in schools. Sallu currently serves on the ADE Culturally Inclusive Practice Committee member, a group that is working to create a guide for Arizona schools to implement and sustain cultural embedded practices. Sallu is national and statewide presenter on educational equity. She has presented at various conferences across the country focusing on cultural pedagogical practices as a vehicle in closing the achievement gap. She was the recipient of 2016 City of Tempe Arizona, Martin Luther King Jr. Education Award.

Sallu received her bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Our Lady of the Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts, her master's degree in social work from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, her principal certification from Northern Arizona University and her doctorate in educational administration and supervision from Arizona State University. Her dissertation research explored the intersectionality of sub-Saharan African refugees, student-teacher relationships and learning outcomes.