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Anthony Demetrious Jewett is President, Founder & CEO of Bardoli Global, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing global leadership and study abroad opportunities for traditionally underrepresented minority students.

Born on March 3, 1981 and raised in Fort Myers, Florida, he is the son of Carleather Douglas Atkins and Anthony Curtis Moore. Anthony began studying abroad in middle school and high school in France and Costa Rica. In 2003, he earned a B.A. degree in international studies from Morehouse College. As a Morehouse student, his passion for international exchange and cultural diversity earned him both the Freeman-Asia and Benjamin A. Gilman scholarship awards from the Institute of International Education.

He extensively studied Chinese, French, and Spanish before graduating college and studied and worked abroad in Benin, Senegal, China, and the Middle East. Before founding Bardoli Global, he worked as a dual-language elementary school teacher in the South Bronx of New York City with the Teach for America national service corps.

Anthony founded Bardoli Global in 2005, and in 2006 was named “one of the world’s fifteen best emerging social entrepreneurs” by Echoing Green. He is a member of the 100 Black Men of Metro Houston, and serves on the boards of directors of Bread of Life, Youth Represent, the Collaborative for Diversity in Education Abroad, and the editorial advisory board of International Educator magazine.