Dr. Brendan Csaposs has been an educator of both children and adults for over 15 years, currently serving as the Global Lead of Academic Operations with Nova Pioneer Schools in Nairobi. His career in education, though relatively young, has spanned a wide variety of roles, from special education teacher to principal, and (outside the primary/secondary school building) from full-time graduate school professor to community organiser. A product of his own challenging voyage in public education, after volunteering in college at a local Headstart, he began to make sense of what inequity and injustice mean in schools. This path led him to Baton Rouge and New Orleans where, as a special education teacher, his students consistently academically outpaced both expectations and their peers, leading him to enter school administration by the age of 24. He later went on to found and lead several public charter schools in California, Texas, and Louisiana, and later ventured to East Africa to continue his vision and mission of impacting outcomes for students both in Africa and across the Diaspora.

He has since gone on to earn a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from the George Washington University and a Doctorate in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning from the University of Arkansas. Through his many educational roles, coaching and developing business leaders, and even as a candidate for public office, Brendan has always believed in the power of love and high expectations to help people change their world, which is work that he continues today on the African Continent and worldwide.

Thokozani Mhlangu joined Nova Pioneer in 2024 from Future Nations Schools, where he served as Head of both Foundation and Intermediate Phases for eight years.  An educator since 2004, Thokozani has taught and led across both private and public schools, as well as serving as a Teacher Developer with Instil Education and Acorn Education.  He holds a Bachelors with Honours of Health and Social Sciences from the University of South Africa, as well as a Diploma in Education with a focus on Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Witwatersrand, and a Diploma in Primary Education from the University of Zimbabwe.