Music: Liberatory feel the vibe dope DJ's, Nina Simone, Fela Kuti, Sam Cooke, Billie Holiday, Marvin Gaye, Ofori Amponsah, Meshell N'degecelo, Beres Hammond, Bob Marley, Senya, Osunlade, Sister Carol, Sade, Gilles Peterson, Gregory Issac, Horace Andy, Jacob Miller, the Roots, Hiero, Zion I, Madvillian, Little Brother, lots of Dilla, Talib, Madlib, Common, Soukouss, Afrobeat, Magic System, Franco, Africa Negra, Youssou N'dour, Salif Keita, Pape Wemba, Brenda Fassie, Kanda Bongo Man, dancehall, instrumental hip hop tracks, soul classics, hiplife, traditional drumming, world african diaspora, jazz, deep soulful house, transmassive dub, salsa grooves, samba, and overall the rhythms of the drum beat.
Films: Ile Aiye, Battle of Algiers, Quilombo, Life and Debt, Lumumba, Xala, Jump Tomorrow, Cry Freedom (Steve Biko), Black Orpheus, Beautiful Boxer, Sankofa, Color Purple, Matrix, Amores Perros, City of Photos, Karmen Gei, 50 First Dates, Born Into Brothels, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Sex and Lucia, Hotel Rwanda, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Madame Sata, Crouching Tiger, Enter the Dragon, City of God, Maria Full of Grace, Purple Rain, and so many more radical documentaries and foreign independent films that educate my spirit bringing light to my unfolding story
Books: Academically, I traveled through post-colonial, nationalism, anti-colonial movements, oil politics, U.S. imperialism, gender, queer, feminist, globalization, socio-cultural anthropology, african diaspora, studies, spiritual texts, environmental and social justice issues etc. A few that stands out for now is Return to the Source and National Liberation (Amilcar Cabral), Open Veins of Latin America (Eduardo Galeano), How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Walter Rodney),Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, and Democratic Futures, (Chandra Talpade Mohanty), Teaching to Transgress (Bell Hooks), Fanon, The Isis Papers, Postcolonialisms, Opening to Spirit (Caroline Shola Arewa) *Fiction: A Small Place (Jamaica Kincaid), Temple of My Familiar (Alice Walker), Babyji, Things Fall Apart, Weep Not Child (Ngugi wa Thiong'o), Nervous Condition (Tsitsi Dangarembga), all Octavia Butler's books and others.
Heroes: Of course my mother whose been a source of inspiration. Outside of her, Music has been a teacher, its vibrations opens up sensual creativity, grounding and liberation. Also spiritual elders/teachers/mentos, and others from amazing readings, teachings, Audre Lorde, Assata Shakur, Walter Rodney, Malcolm X, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Stuart Hall, Wangari Mathai, Eduardo Galeano, bell hooks, Gandhi, Amilcar Cabral, Nina Simone, Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James, Ra UN Nefer Amen, Muata Ashby, James Baldwin, Bob Marley, Ward Churchill, Hugo Chavez, Caroline Shola Arewa, Fidel Castro, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and others.

Vehicles: Network, Non-Profit Organizations
Roles 1: BLOC Circle Participants

Ethnicity: Black
Occupation: Instructor at New College of California, Activism and Social Change Program. Campaign Organizer at Rainforest Action Network Freedom From Oil campaign.

iam says...
thanks for the attention!
posted: March 4, 2007 at 5:19 pm

your profile is excellent! love the theory of change! blessUp brah' i may need you to think about how we can use the circles function as the graduation of the old fashioned listserve... talk to me about it...
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