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Ashia Ajani
Ashia Ajani is a sunshower, a glass bead, a carnivorous plant, an overripe nectarine. Ajani is a multi-genre environmental storyteller & educator hailing from Denver, Queen City of the Plains and the unceded territory of the Cheyenne, Ute, and Arapahoe peoples. Ajani is a lecturer in the African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley and a climate resilient schools educator and researcher with Mycelium Youth Network. Their debut poetry collection is Heirloom. A Black future is happening, always.