Spiros Lazaris P.E. - Congo Revival Founder and Executive Director
Spiros Lazaris is an accomplished professional engineer with over 25 years of diverse experience in the areas of Civil and Geotechnical Engineering, Program Management, and Project Management for Public Works Infrastructure Projects and Land Development. Spiros is the founder and managing principal of Spiros Lazaris Engineered Solutions L.L.C. (S.L.E.S), specializing in providing consulting services for public infrastructure used for the conveyance of people, vehicles, basic energy and commerce in the remote, complex and challenging environments of the sub-Saharan African region. Spiros is an adjunct professor in Civil Engineering and Construction Management at California State University in Northridge. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) - Strategic Communications Subcommittee for the ASCE Committee of Sustainability recognizing sustainability as a set of environmental, economic and social conditions in which society has the capacity and opportunity to maintain and improve its quality of life without diminishing available natural, economic and social resources. Spiros serves in the capacity of a reader, evaluator and assessor for the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders – President Obama's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) created to support young African leaders in academic and leadership skills preparing them to lead Africa. He is a certified World Mentor raising achievement levels of professional engineers by removing employment barriers and encouraging employees to develop their engineering skills and utilize talents to their fullest. Spiros is the author of the capstone chapter of the book Design-Build for Water and Wastewater Projects and a recipient of multiple national awards from the DBIA and APWA for the Design-Build Charnock Well Field Restoration project. Born and raised in Zimbabwe and having lived in Zambia, Spiros is very familiar with the region's local culture and infrastructural dynamics and brings years of professional engineering experience and significant knowledge to any project in any location in the Sub-Saharan African region.

Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha – Co-Founder and Educational Director
Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha is a tenured Professor at California State University Northridge (Los Angeles) where he is a member of the "African Studies Interdisciplinary Program" committee, and teaches various courses of African and African American Studies, as well as interreligious Dialogue, and world religions and the politics of peace and violence. He is also a visiting Professor at the University of Kamina (Congo). Director of the Bumuntu Peace Institute, he is also the Co-founder of Congo Revival. Born and raised in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he was educated in Africa, Europe, and the USA where he defended, in Philadelphia, a doctoral dissertation on the philosophical and theological foundations of an African vision of human rights, with a focus on the human condition in post-colonial Central Africa and the relation between Church and State in the Congo. Mutombo who speaks 7 languages, has traveled, done research and given lectures in 16 countries around the globe, including Germany, Switzerland, England, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Mexico, Indonesia, and Rwanda. Over the last 20 years he has elaborated the "Bumuntu Paradigm" of African humanism and its application to peacemaking processes, democracy building, and human rights, and sustainable development, and has published extensively on this African art of becoming humane known as Bumuntu in the Congo. His poetic meditation on the human condition in Africa and around the globe was published in the US in 2011 under the title "Bela-Wenda: Voices from the Heart of Africa."

Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana – Co-Educational Director
Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana serves as the Area Director of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)-DC Peace and Economic Justice Program. AFSC is an international, Quaker organization, recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize, committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service world-wide. Prior to his D.C. assignment, Mr. Ikambana has served in several capacities the cause of the advancement of human dignity in different international, national and local organizations in Africa, Europe, South America, and North America as teacher, social worker, program manager, program director, board member, and advocate. He is fluent in Lingala, Kikongo, French, Spanish and English. Mr. Ikambana holds a BA in Philosophy and Human Sciences from l'Institut Saint Pierre Cainisius, Kimwenza-Kinshasa (DRC), an MA in Political Science from La Javeriana University, Bogota (Colombia), an MS in Criminal Justice from Saint Joseph University, Philadelphia (USA), a Ph.D. in African American Studies from Temple University, Philadelphia (USA), and a Master's Degree in International Affairs at American University (USA). Mr. Ikambana runs the DC Human Rights City Program. He led a coalition of D.C. grassroots organizations, schools and government officials that successfully culminated with the proclamation of Washington, D.C. as the first human rights city in the United States. Currently, he is leading the efforts to expand human rights learning in D.C. public and private schools.He is currently serving on the board of Jesuits Refugee Service USA (www.jrsusa.org). He is the recipient of the 2010 Community Human Rights Award presented by the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area. He was recently awarded the 2014 Presidential Volunteer Service Award. Mr. Ikambana is the author of " Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System. An Afrocentric Analysis", published by Routledge, and a contributor in " Africa In the 21st Century", published by Routledge.