My name is Akua Agyen.

I am a first-generation Ghanaian-American who grew up across the Midwest of the United States. Much of my childhood was spent near riverbanks and within earshot of trains. I learned many valuable lessons in public libraries, at various aunties’ kitchen tables, and through music.

I am an anthropologist and therapist invested in Black feminist and abolitionist and anticolonial care. My work is rooted in and shaped by community exchange, Black and African tradition, and afrofuturist possibility.