Since 2017, Thinking Act's Creator and Founder, Effie Samara has worked tirelessly under the UNESCO Chair for Integration Through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow.
Professor Alison Phipps is the supervisor of Effie Samara's doctoral research into the Dramaturgies of Exile. Poet Tawona Sithole and Gameli Tordzro and Naa Densua Tordzro are close close collaborators in the annual UNESCO Spring Festival and across different projects researching decolonising practices and collaborations between the Global South and North as well as the areas of Social Anthropology and Epistemology.
