Karla M. Wynn Diouf • Director of Public Relations – Karla M. Wynn Diouf [pronounced ‘Juif’] • has served as ADACI’s Director of Public Relations since 1994. A writer, editor, and blogger (http://wynnwrites productions .blog spot.com) and http://blog.loyola.edu/pastoral counseling) and book reviewer with a public and community relations background, she also provided promotional services for the KanKouran West African Dance Company, Mary’s First Child Productions by Charisma, and the Baltimore Bahá’í Community.
Ms. Wynn was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Namibia, Southern Africa who spent also over 25 years as a workforce development professional the City of Baltimore, District of Columbia, and Anne Arundel County, Maryland. An adherent of the Bahá’í Faith (www.bahai.us) for over 30 years, Karla served on the Faith’s appointed and elected institutions; taught children’s classes; produced radio broadcasts about the Faith on WEAA 88.9 FM in the 1990s; became a tutor/facilitator for the Ruhi Institute Spiritual Empowerment and Education Courses; facilitated courses on the Historical and Spiritual Significance of Being a Person of African Ancestry in the Bahá’í Faith; and delivered public addresses on various aspects of the Bahá’í Faith. The native New Yorker is an occasional performing artist having performed with the Metropolitan Washington Bahá’í Chorale, an International Bahá’í Choir in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, the Bahá’í Gospel Choir in New York, and the annual Bahá’í Choral Music Festival in Wilmette, IL; the KanKouran West African and Keur Khaleyi African Companies; and Mary’s First Child Productions by Charisma. She is the 2012-2016 Chaplain of the Alpha Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. in Baltimore; and also a mediator and restorative dialogue facilitator with the Mediation and Conflict Resolution Center at Howard Community College. She has a Political Science Degree from Hampton University; and Master’s Degree in Spiritual and Pastoral Care from Loyola University Maryland.
A life-long learner, she has taken numerous professional development courses and has professional certifications as a Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF), Workplace Excellence Certified Facilitator, and Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW). In addition, she is on the faculty of Anne Arundel Community College – serving as an Adjunct Professor who taught Business Courses to male prisoners at the Jessup Correctional Institution. Her students, aged 23-67 years of age, expressed rated “Professor Wynn” the 2015-2016 “World’s Best Teacher” who encourages them, treats them like human beings and students and pushed them to excel.