Dr. Blidi Stemn has been in the field of education in Liberia, the United Kingdom and the United States for more than two decades. He is currently a mathematics educator at State University of New York College at Old Westbury. Prior to that he was an Associate Professor in Mathematics Education at Hofstra University in New York. Upon graduating from Cuttington University in Liberia, he taught mathematics at Booker Washington Institute for 6 years before pursing his masters degree in mathematics education at Cardiff University of Wales. He later earned his doctorate degree from the University of Connecticut.In 2011, he founded Education First, Inc. a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of education in rural and underserved communities in Liberia. Two years later his organization established an early childhood center and an elementary school in Harper, Liberia.

He has been a mathematics education consultant for a number of schools in Long Island, New York and the New York city providing professional development workshops for K-12 mathematics teachers.

Blidi was elected to the board of FOL in 2013 when he has served as the chair of the Post Ebola Grant Committee.