Political scientist. Educator. Civic storyteller.

Teacher. Scholar. Storyteller.

Across more than twenty-five years in classrooms and the institutions that sustain them, he has taught through multiple political and educational cycles, built civic-learning programs, led faculty and governance initiatives, and translated complex systems for public audiences.

Hakawati means storyteller. Here, storytelling is not an ornament added to scholarship. It is a disciplined way of synthesizing memory, evidence, culture, and institutional life so that serious audiences can see how power works—and what responsible stewardship requires.