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Nzinga Ratibisha Heru, International President
Nzinga Ratibisha Heru is the International President of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) and chairperson of its executive committee and has served in that capacity since 1990. She is also a charter member of ASCAC and the former National Treasurer.
Sister Nzinga, has had diverse experience in the field of African and African American Studies.
Ms. Heru has been involved in cultural reclamation and preservation for over the past 30 years. She attended the University of Minnesota, California State University of Los Angeles, the Institute of Pan African Studies and the Kemetic Institute.
President Nzinga has been instrumental in planning and organizing numerous conferences including the First Annual Ancient Egyptian Studies Conference held in Los Angeles, February, 1984. She also served as Technical Consultant to the national office of ASCAC for the Fourth Annual ASCAC Conference in Aswan, Kemet, 1987. And, which was attended by nearly one thousand African Americans. She asserts an enormous amount of love to her people and serves the people of the African community as both a consultant and advisor for numerous community based organizations.
Additionally, she has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Africa, the Caribbean Islands, Canada, Central America, and Europe.
Queen Nzinga is a member of the International Black Women’s Congress, the National Council of Negro Women, the National Alliance of Black School Educators, and the Fannie Lou Hamer Queen Mother Society.
She serves on the Advisory Boards of the Black Community Health Task Force, South Central Multipurpose Senior Citizens Center, and the Hubert H. Humphrey Women's Health Clinic. Ms Heru has received numerous awards for her scholarship and service. Her current work focuses on Health and Education disparities and pro-active strategies with an emphasis on the intergenerational transmission of wisdom.
Taking the name of Nzinga (a warrior Queen who unified her people and fought for forty years to keep the Portuguese out of Angola), combined with Ratibisha which means 'she who corrects things and makes things right’ is dedicated to explicating, illuminating, and building on the historic inheritance of the formidable, enduring struggle for a better life and better world on the part of Africa and her children.