Professor Audrey Sitsofe Gadzekpo is a Ghanaian media practitioner and female dean of the School of Information and Communications Studies at the University of Ghana.[1][2][3][4][5][6] She was formerly a Communications Consultant and Lecturer who represented women's groups.[7] She is also a member of the Webster Ghana's advisory board.[8]
She is an Associate professor of Journalism and Media Studies.[9][10] She attended the University of Birmingham in Britain where she graduated with PhD in Education at the Center for West African Studies.[11] She had her M.A in Communications from Brigham Young University in Utah in USA and her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Ghana.[12][13][14]
She began her career in 1993.[11] In January 2017, President Nana Akufo-Addo named her as a committee member for the planning of the 60th Independent anniversary of Ghana.[15]
In June 2017, she was among the members of the National Media Commission that were inducted to help pass the Broadcasting and the Right to Information bills into law.[7]
In June 2017, she spoke at the Maiden Edition of Women in PR Ghana Seminar with Dr. Ayokoe Anim-Wright, Cynthia E. Ofori-Dwumfuo and Gifty Bingley.[16][17]
Her research is primarily geared towards gender, media and governance issues.[18][19]
In February 2021, she was among an eight-member committee to select a new name for the Film industry in Ghana.[20]
She is currently the Dean of School of Information and Communication Studies at the University of Ghana.[11][21][22]
She has a daughter called Nubuke Gadzekpo Amoah who is a fellow of the third class of the Africa Leadership Initiative-West Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.[23]
She was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University in Chicago in USA at the Program of African Studies from September to December 2005.[23]
She was also a Guest Researcher at Nordic Africa Institute in the African Guest Researchers Program in 2012 (Research Cluster ‘Conflict, Security and Democratic Transformation).[24]
In March 2020, she received an award in the 5th Ghana Women of Excellence Awards for her leadership role.[25]
She was paid homage by Anas Aremeyaw Anas for her role in his rise through the undercover journalism in Ghana.[26]
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