Dr. Tamela Hultman (Tami) is co-founder and chief strategy and content officer of AllAfrica Global Media – a systems technology developer and a leading distributor of African news and information worldwide in partnership with over 100 African media organizations. AllAfrica reaches tens of millions of end users through the website allAfrica.com and through such clients as LexisNexis, Bloomberg, and Dow Jones / Factiva. The site was nominated in two successive years for a Webby as “Best News Site” by the international Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. She also is administrator of the AllAfrica Foundation, which collaborates with African media professionals to produce original content on issues of sustainable development.

She has reported, edited, consulted and produced for a range of international media, including the BBC, South African Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio (U.S.), International Television News (UK), NBC Television (U.S.), the
Washington Post the New York Times and Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris). She was Executive Producer for a National Public Radio series on Africa in the post-Cold War world, a two-year project, supervising teams of five dozen researchers, reporters, hosts, producers and engineers in eight countries. She oversaw pan-African coverage for the launch of SABC Africa, a South African Broadcasting Corporation television channel for Africa. Her work has won regional, national and international prizes, including the World Hunger Media Award presented at the
United Nations. She conceived and edited The Africa News Cookbook: African Cooking for Western Kitchens (Viking/Penguin).

She was a Freedom Forum Fellow at the University of North Carolina, where she earned Master’s and PhD degrees and was founding Director of the Center for Africa and Media at Duke University, where she taught for three years,
inaugurating one of the first university Internet courses, “News in a Global Village,” linking universities in Ghana and South Africa with Duke and Florida A&M. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the African Studies Association and the International Women’s Media Foundation. In 2001, she was named co-recipient of the Special Recognition Media Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Africa America Institute in New York.