BIO: Dr. Olubayi Olubayi is an associate professor of microbiology and the chair of the biotechnology program at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey. He is also a lecturer in Africana Studies at Rutgers University where he teaches the senior seminar on wealth, and a class on the contributions of Africans to science. Dr. Olubayi earned his Ph.D. in plant biology from Rutgers University in 1995. His research focus was on the biology of bacteria-plant-cell interactions. He is the co-founder and president of the Global Literacy Project, Inc., a nonprofit organization that has already shipped more than one million books and hundreds of computers to economically disadvantaged countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia. He is the founder and chair of the advisory board of the Pan-African Mentoring and Learning Organization (PAMLO) whose mission is to promote literacy and self-reliance on the continent of Africa. He is the adviser to the Youth Organization of Amagoro district in Kenya, and the founder of the Chamasiri Harambee Self-Reliance Project in Kenya. Dr. Olubayi is currently writing a book on protein purification and another on the responsibilities of educated Africans in rebuilding Africa. He and several colleagues are developing a plan to launch a micro-lending project in rural western Kenya and are designing a Pan-African Leadership Academy to train the next generation of African leaders to create solutions to the Continent’s problems.