Omawu Diane Enobabor

Omawu Diane Enobabor is a PhD Candidate in Earth and Environmental Studies at the Graduate Center CUNY. Her dissertation examines social reproduction and contemporary racialized mobilities of African Migrants migrating throughout the Americas- with case studies in São Paulo, Brazil, Tapachula, Mexico and New York, New York. Her research has been supported by the Graduate Center and the Fulbright-Hays Program, and her writing appears in NACLA and Society and Space. As a social practitioner, Diane situated praxis oriented art practice, spatial theory, and social movement organizing strategies as an operational technology toward a liberatory insurgent or ‘future planning’ in migrant and Black diasporic communities. She is the founder of New York based Aan African feminist collective, Africa is Everywhere and also founder and co-architect of Black: Cite; Sight-Site, a arts and cultural festival based in São Paulo, Brazil.