Holding multiple identities at once as many of us do, but let me start introducing myself as a transplant from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia living in Minneapolis. Eldest daughter to my family, caretaker in my community, black organizer, storyteller, & archivist by practice & lineage.

 

I grew up in a multi generational african diaspora household that tended around community care even before I was adolescent. I have been organizing and co-creating political education, trainings & experiential learning to facilitate engagements that advance people of. Black, Indigenous decent.

 

To be specific, my work overlaps with community safety, environmental justice, building strategies of political education & food system. As a cultural work, I gravitate towards storytelling & memory keeping using practices of dance, and multi media content as a way to archive African Diaspora people's experiences in both the global south and the west.

 

Previously I served as the director of community engagement at Metro Blooms, as council member for In Heart of the Beast, board member at Conservation Corps of Minnesota & Iowa long time Project Director for local collective called Relationships Evolving Possibilities ( REP).