Teachers

Multi-disciplinary designer from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With a background in Architecture, she works with digital media and spatial design to interrogate themes of equitable futurism and intersectionality.

Research fellow at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, UVA. Her work focuses on the use of the arts as a pedagogical tool to overcome the vestiges of colonial educational methods in contemporary African classrooms.

Neema Githere (b. Nairobi, Kenya) is an artist and guerrilla theorist whose work explores love and indigeneity in a time of algorithmic debris.

Liberian-born refugee, designer, strategist, creative director, social practitioner, and the founder of Deem Journal.

Panashe Chigumadzi is a Zimbabwean-born journalist, essayist and novelist, who was raised in South Africa.

Trauma-informed, cultural somatic practitioner, working with individuals and communities to repair connections and integrate collective, intergenerational, individual, and systemic trauma

Black, queer, feminist writer, speaker and digital content creator. They write and speak on issues concerning feminism, sexual and reproductive health and pleasure, consent, rape culture, race, intersectional social justice and pop culture.

Chidumaga Uzoma Orji is an indigenous futurist, visual and experiential artist and creative technologist. His work is concerned with unpacking post-colonial crises of identity, fuelling imagination in service of progressive African futures, and conceptualising a digital ethos for the 21st century that is reflective of ancestral technological modalities, all with a view to contributing to a liberated, free and healed African psyche.