Dr. Emmanuel Ihechi Asonye is a Linguists and speech and hearing scientist. He is proudly Igbo. His career as a professor began in Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria. After 8 years he moved to the University of New Mexico. He left university job in 2022 to start his nonprofit and multiple businesses.
Dr. Asonye is the Founder and CEO of Omenka App LLC, Indigenous Hands and Voices, Co-Founder of Usekwu Foods LLC. Dr. Asonye is the author of “Nature’s All: Notes from an African Village Boy,” a collection of poems. Dr. Asonye is a husband and a father of five.