{"id":8309,"date":"2025-02-24T11:11:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:12:38","slug":"march-meeting-papa-dia-founder-executive-director-of-the-african-leadership-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/march-meeting-papa-dia-founder-executive-director-of-the-african-leadership-group\/","title":{"rendered":"March Meeting: Papa Dia, Founder\/Executive Director of the African Leadership Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our very own, Solomon Muwanga will be interviewing Papa Dia\"\", Founder and Executive Director of the African Leadership Group (ALG), a Colorado nonprofit created in 2006 to help improve the quality of life for African immigrants and members of the diaspora.<\/p>\n

A native of Senegal, Papa immigrated to Denver in 1998.\u00a0 He used his first job, stocking books, to teach himself how to read, write and speak English.\u00a0 From an entry-level position in a local bank, Papa over the next 18 years climbed the ranks to become a regional vice president.\u00a0 In 2017, Papa left banking to focus his full attention on running and growing ALG.<\/p>\n

Papa serves on the boards of the Denver Botanic Gardens, Energize Colorado, and is a member of the prestigious Livingston Fellowship.<\/p>\n

In addition to running ALG, Papa leads several businesses and nonprofits working in or based in Senegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our very own, Solomon Muwanga will be interviewing Papa Dia, Founder and Executive Director of the African Leadership Group (ALG), a Colorado nonprofit created in 2006 to help improve the quality of life for African immigrants and members of the diaspora. A native of Senegal, Papa immigrated to Denver in 1998.\u00a0 He used his first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meetings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 01:25:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9504,"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions\/9504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denveradvisoryboard.com\/edudev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}