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Meet the growing global network of visionary change-makers reimagining the future for Africa and the world.
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The Ijeruka community is a global network of 1400+ business and nonprofit leaders, thinkers, activists, creatives, and healers with diverse wisdom and expertise.
Our members span diverse sectors and geographies, from emerging visionaries to seasoned leaders in governance, technology, media, health, and more, but they share a common mission: to create a life-affirming future rooted in dignity, equity and hope. They believe that true change starts from within and radiates outward into the systems and stories we create. They are building businesses that prioritise people and the planet. They are social architects crafting systems, spaces, and stories that heal and inspire. They know that the future of our countries and communities is ours to shape—and they are determined to act.
Whether you’re an individual or part of a mission-driven organisation, Ijeruka welcomes anyone that's driven to solve problems and create a positive impact. This is a space for those who embrace the complexity of our interconnected world and who are ready to lead from the intersections of systems, stories, and spirit.
Whether you’re an individual or part of a mission-driven organisation, Ijeruka welcomes anyone that's driven to solve problems and create a positive impact. This is a space for those who embrace the complexity of our interconnected world and who are ready to lead from the intersections of systems, stories, and spirit.
Aisha Udochi
Economist
Nigeria
Africa-China doctoral researcher in Economics at Howard University, concentrating in growth and development theory. She is also an adjunct faculty member in Development Economics at New Hampshire University’s Carsey School of Public Policy, and a Non-Resident Fellow for the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa.
Amber Starks
Decolonial Theorist & Organiser
USA
Afro Indigenous (African-American and Native American) advocate, organizer, cultural critic, decolonial theorist, and budding abolitionist. She is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and is also of Shawnee, Yuchi, Quapaw, and Cherokee descent.
Amahra Spence
Liberatory Designer
United Kingdom
As Founding Director of MAIA and Organiser of The Black Land & Spatial Justice Project, Amahra's practice is one of poetic pragmatism, exploring transformation and iterating change oriented towards liberation through spatial reclamation and social justice, design, performance and storytelling.
Annika Hansteen-Izora
Designer
USA
Multidisciplinary designer whose work is primarily rooted in a desire to explore futures rooted in collectivity, play, design, and care-oriented technology. You can find them reimagining the future of social media and queer community as Lead Product Designer at Lex and Somewhere Good.
Ari Melenciano
Artist & Technologist
USA
Artist, technologist, researcher, and cultural theorist imagining, researching, and building at the nexus of new media art, design, science, and technology through a Black and Afrocentric lens
Arielle King
Climate Justice Educator
USA
Environmental educator, facilitator, writer, and content creator passionate about making environmentalism and law inclusive and accessible to all people. Arielle is focused on storytelling and amplifying the voices, work, and legacies of those traditionally excluded from mainstream environmentalism.
Ayana Zaire Cotton
Anti-disciplinary artist, technologist and cultural worker
Country
Through engaging with language, technology, and ecology, Ayana is cultivating a practice of remembering and imagining alternative modes of being and interspecies belonging.
Berhan Taye
Digital Rights Researcher & Analyst
Ethiopia
Berhan Taye investigates the relationship between technology, society, and social justice. She is currently a Practitioner Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab, Stanford University and a Research Manager at One Project.
We host online and in-person gatherings to bring community members together through collective learning and exploration.
From unconventional themes like Radical Hope, Digital Kinship, and Meeting Our Griots, to courses blending critical inquiry with embodied practices and creative exploration, we create sacred learning spaces where big questions can be asked, assumptions challenged, and purpose rediscovered. Designed by and for people of African descent, our events are deeply nourishing, allowing for authenticity, joy, and intellectual rigour to coexist. Whether virtually or in-person, Ijeruka is a playground of possibilities.
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Exclusive discounts on all online learning programs
Members-only content and programming
Host your own activations through our network
20% discount on select events with our partners
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