jada-amina is a Black Indigenous American new genres artist, curator, and cultural worker born and based on the South Side of Chicago. Her work spans sound, writing, video, and collage, exploring tenderness within the ancestral and contemporary context of the Black Atlantic, and centering a love ethic, as informed by bell hooks (All About Love, 2000). Rooted in Black feminist and faith traditions, her practice addresses memory, migration, and materiality, attuned to their erotic, gender, and class dimensions.

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As an independent scholar and psalmist, her work is deeply rooted in spirit-led inquiry. At Old Town School of Folk Music, she serves as a Programmer. She is also the Curator of the Black Harvest Film Festival at The Gene Siskel Film Center and the Public Programs and Engagement Manager at the South Side Community Art Center.