About

Context is an interactive mobile application that provides a story-based way to learn about cultures across the globe. The Context user gains cultural learning and sensitivity that goes deeper than language, and internalizes the tools needed to make long-lasting relationships across cultures. By building from a foundation of awareness, respect and humility, Context aims to lead the pioneers of the world in their journey for a wider and more reliable perspective on successful interaction across cultures.

Explorers

Stewart Knights

Founder & CEO

Stewart is an undergraduate at Lancaster University who saw the need for cultural understand during a volunteering experience in Fiji. He is currently learning Mandarin.

Jude Aboagye

Co-founder

Jude is a recent graduate of the University of Iowa with a background in business management, as well as a love for traveling and culture. Jude is also a talented musician and is constantly refining his craft.

Yuchen Liu

Content Developer

Yuchen is a postgraduate student at the University of Iowa. She believes things are intertwined and co-exist – human beings, nature, culture, language, etc. They are embedded in and support each other.

 

Alex Burchell

Content Developer and Outreach

Alex is a politics and international relations undergraduate at Lancaster University, whose plans to travel to study in Australia were thwarted by the Covid-19 pandemic!

A picture of Victorine Nkaandevig.

Victorine Kipulu Nkaandevig

Content Development and Outreach

Victorine is a business management student who has a variety of cross-cultural experience. Between speaking 5 languages and being extremely successful in the startup space, Victorine has been able to hone her cross-cultural skills.

 

Ben Dunn Flores

UI/UX Designer

Ben is a Loughborough design student interested in the good startups can do. A fascination with culture comes from balancing British and Mexican families. I’d like to be able to use something like this when I travel.

Devika Sharma

UI/UX Designer

Alex is a politics and international relations undergraduate at Lancaster University, whose plans to travel to study in Australia were thwarted by the Covid-19 pandemic!

Kate Chernysheva

UI/UX Designer

Kate is a Postgraduate student at University of the Arts London studying User Experience Design. As a native of culturally and artistically rich Russia and a travel enthusiast I see Context as a great opportunity for me to grow as a person as well as a professional.

Stephanie Smith

Social Media and Marketing

Steph is an undergraduate at Lancaster University studying mechatronic engineering. Culture is important to her as she grew up in an asian English household and spent the last 7 years between Los Angeles and the UK. To truly travel is to become immersed in one’s culture, their way of life.

Dimy Doresca, CGBP

Senior advisor

Dimy Doresca is a Certified Global Business Professional (CGBP), an International Business Specialist and Consultant, and an International Trainer in Entrepreneurship. He is the Director of the Institute for International Business and a Lecturer in International Business and Entrepreneurship at The University of Iowa. He is also the Academic Director of the Mandela Washington Fellowship Program at the University of Iowa.