“The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire.”
- From The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell 

Convener and Chair

• Elias Wondimu

Steering Committee 

• Abebe Zegeye, University of South Africa in Pretoria 
• Alem Hailu, Howard University
• Alemayehu Gebre-Mariam, UC, San Bernardino
• Berhanu Abegaz. College of William and Mary
• Maimire Mennasemay, Dawson College
• Worku Negash, Mission College

Advisory Committee 

• Addis Adugna, Ethiopian Heritage Foundation
• Messay Kebede, University of Dayton
• Chris Abani, University of California, Riverside
• Adugnaw Worku, Pacific Union College
• Haile Gerima, Howard University
• Ayele Bekerie, Cornell University
• Elias Kifle, Ethiopian Review eMagazine
• Wendy Belcher, Princeton University
• Solomon Abate, Ethiopian Music Foundation
• Theresia de Vroom, Loyola Marymount University
• Damtew Teferra, Boston College & IFP
  Kinfu Assefa, Ethiopian Media Forum
• Achamyeleh Debela, North Carolina Central University
• Pietro Togia, Kurtztown University
• Yoti Telahun, Cascadia College
• Lahra Smith, GeorgeTown University
• Raymond Silverman, University of Michigan
• Paulos Milkias, Concordia University
• Menasse Zewdu, Ge'ez Frontier Foundation
• Yohannes Assefa, The Ethiopian American

• Yared Mengistu Hohete Arefeaine Demi Bekele

  Wondwossen Mezlekia  Nader Alsheikh Natalia Aivazova

• Winta Teferi  Samuel Suraphel

  Yoseph Gezahegne Nahom Beyene