Isis Asare earned a degree in psychology from Stanford University. She then lived in Ghana, her parents’ homeland, as part of the Peace Corps. Her subsequent life chapters include graduate degrees from Columbia Business School and Harvard University, a career in tech at companies such as Microsoft, Shutterfly, and Brightroll, and starting a film entertainment site for queer women of color named Sistah Sinema which Asare sold for 2x revenue in 2010. In 2019, Isis Asare started Sistah Scifi, the first Black owned bookstore focused on science fiction and fantasy. Located primarily in cyberspace, Sistah Scifi launched three Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine in 2023. In 2024, Isis Asare was selected as the first African American executive director of Aunt Lute Books, a San Francisco based, non-profit feminist press.
2025 Inside Ideas
Moderator – Telling Our Futures: Speculative Fiction and Social Change
2025 Family Day
Moderator – Fantastical Worlds and Beings
