Tchetchet Digbohou (pronounced chay’chay’ dig-bo-oo) is an educator, passionate educational advisor, and author. A former EducationUSA student advisor with the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Education, Tchetchet also worked for several years as a college faculty and as an independent international student recruiter.
In 2014, he co-founded InterEdu Solutions an ELS Educational Services international partner. InterEdu Solutions’ main mission is to help increase college access for nontraditional students and promote ethnic diversity on North American campuses as well as cross-continental academic exchange. In 2017, he published “The Secret to Winning an International Scholarship,” a comprehensive guide to successfully applying for international scholarships based on the best practices learned from fellow scholarship advisers worldwide and on his own experience advising students and scholars looking for funding opportunities.
Tchetchet believes quality education should be available to anyone, regardless of place of residence, socioeconomic status, or race. He advocates for supporting students achieve their dreams of a better education, for the dissemination of best practices in education and, for social and economic empowerment. Until recently, he was the Scholarship Manager for POISE Foundation, a Pittsburgh, PA-based community foundation. In that capacity, he oversaw the entire portfolio of scholarship programs, designed new ones, and lead the foundation’s outreach to students, parents, community partners, high schools and college/universities. Currently, he is Acculturation for Justice, Access & Peace Outreach (AJAPO) and Project Co-coordinator of IISE's International Higher Education Working Group.
Tchetchet Digbohou is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education where he earned a Education Doctorate with an emphasis on Social and Comparative Analysis in Education. Tchetchet is engaged in matters relating to K-12 and higher education as an independent researcher, public speaker, and community volunteer.