Teachers

April-Autumn is a seasoned Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and public speaker, CEO of Sparks Innovations/establisHER Counseling and Life Solutions, known for her expertise in facilitating crucial dialogues and training across various sectors on violence prevention and relationship counseling.

Siphokazi Tau is a healer and African feminist academic. Her areas of research include, gender and pop culture in South Africa as well as African women and leadership in South Africa's higher education landscape. She is a coordinator on the Imbali yakwa Tyefu is a project that interacts with the heritage of the rural land mass between the Great Fish River and Keiskamma River, eNgqushwa (Peddie), Eastern Cape, and an assistant on the Encyclopaedia of African Feminisms project.

Doriana Diaz, a Philadelphia-based multidimensional artist, archivist, and memory worker, is celebrated for her impactful collage works and workshops, exploring themes of loss, memory, and identity through visual storytelling. She believes art has DNA, Her work is an exploration of cultural agency, archival documentation, and rhythms of resistance and expansion.

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, celebrated for her groundbreaking work "The Sex Lives of African Women" and co-founder of "Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women," is a pivotal voice in African women's sexual liberation and pleasure. In 2022, she was cited by the BBC in its list of 100 inspirational and influential women from around the world. In 2023, New Africa magazine listed her as one of 100 inspirational Africans.

Amina Doherty is a Nigerian/Antiguan feminist. She is a co-founder of the Black Feminist Fund, the first global institution of its kind focused explicitly on supporting Black feminist movements globally, and the founding Executive Director of FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund, an organization that aims to strengthen the capacity of young feminist organizations around the world. Her strengths as a storyteller, community builder and leader help her envision new futures for women across the globe, and her deep experience in management, philanthropic strategy and thought leadership help her guide organizations to bring these visions to fruition.

Anwulika Okonjo is a Nigerian entrepreneur, social innovation strategist, and the founder of Ijeruka. Her work explores the politics of imagination and engaged citizenship, using education and media as tools for social transformation. With a background as vibrant as the communities she serves, she's worn many hats: from scholar-activist and community organiser, mobilising young women activists across Africa and capturing their stories, to advisor for the Association for Women's Rights in Development, and speaker at the African Union.

Yaa Addae (she/they) is a writer, researcher, and participatory curator whose practice is concerned with architecture, both social and physical. They are currently investigating structural barriers to loving through Open Heart Clinic, a social design incubator for imagining future care infrastructure. Alongside their cultural work, Yaa works in healthcare as a design researcher. All in all, she remains committed to imagining ways of being outside of the colonial structures we have inherited and holding space for collectively designing alternative systems to support this.

Aisha Shillingford, is an anti-disciplinary artist, world builder, designer and cultural strategist originally from Trinidad & Tobago.