Akua Femi Kouyate-Tate is the Senior Director, Education at Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts in Vienna, VA. She first joined Wolf Trap in 2001, serving first as the Associate Director and later as the Director of the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts DC/MD/VA Regional Program. Akua Kouyate-Tate has led program development and implementation for major Wolf Trap Education initiatives including the Wolf Trap Early Childhood STEM Learning Through the Arts, a multi-year initiative funded through a $1.15 million grant under the U.S. Department of Education Arts In Education Model Development and Dissemination Grant Program.

Prior to joining Wolf Trap Foundation, Kouyate-Tate worked as an administrator, educator, and professional artist with arts and disability organizations and governments agencies including Memory of African Culture, Inc., United Cerebral Palsy/UCP, the National Endowment for the Arts, Library of Congress and Young Audiences – D.C. Chapter. She has served as a grants review panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and other state and local arts agencies and regularly presents at national and international conferences on arts education. She also has served as a Lecturer in Dance Major Programs at Howard University, University of Maryland, American University and George Mason University.

Kouyate-Tate holds a Master of Arts Degree in Art Management and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Performing Arts: Dance from American University, and is a recipient of a Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award. She has conducted postgraduate and independent research on African Cultural Studies at Howard University and in the countries of Mali, Senegal and the Gambia.