Elias Wondimu is a social entrepreneur, knowledge broker, institution builder, and cultural ambassador. He is the CEO and President of TSEHAI Corp., a global knowledge company, and founding director of TSEHAI Publishers and its four imprints. Since the 2011 closure of Howard University Press, TSEHAI is the only African or African American publisher housed in an American or European university. In this unique position, he plays a crucial role in filling the global knowledge gap on Africa and work to reverse Africa’s continued brain drain. Currently, Elias is appointed to serve in the Advisory Council of The Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund by the new Ethiopian Prime Minister; he also lectures at the LARB/USC Publishing Workshop; serves as a contributing editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books; and as an advisor to the Ethiopian manuscript collection program at Princeton University.