Naomi Amenu-Fesseha

Naomi Amenu-Fesseha is a PhD student in African American and American Studies at Yale University. Her research is concerned with Black radical, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist thought; its expressions in art and visual culture; and its relationship to pedagogy. An art and cultural worker, she has held fellowships at the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum of the African Diaspora, as well as internships at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and Zoma Museum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She currently works as a Black and Ethnic Studies curriculum writer at MoAD. Underlying both her academic and professional work is an investment in community-centered sites of knowledge production.

She received her BA with honors from Princeton University where she was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and her MA with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London.