Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela, (Michigan State University) received her Ph.D. from University of Illinois in 1998 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Michigan State University. Her research interests focus on institutional transformation and its impact on the mobility of women to leadership positions in higher education, and more generally on organizational culture and its impact on historically marginalized groups, especially those in the African diaspora. Originally from South Africa, she conducted extensive research on South African universities, resulting in two published books and various journal articles.

Reitumetse's other publications focus on similar issues in other settings. Reitu has already made a major commitment to CIES and demonstrated her capacity to further the aims of the society. Reitu was the Program Chair for the CIES 2003 national conference in New Orleans. Working with President-Elect Kassie Freeman, she coordinated a program committee and recruited 19 MSU graduate students as volunteer assistants. She organized the on-line submission and review of proposals and ultimately their organization into 179 sessions spread over four days. Reitu also served as chair of the Joyce Cain Award committee for three years and has been a member of the travel grant committee as well as a reviewer for CER. Mabokela envisions a CIES where marginalized voices will become a part of mainstream discourse and a place where our members will actively challenge inequities that continue to persist globally.