Teachers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.