Aminah is endlessly curious about the stories people carry, the histories we inherit, and how they shape our understanding of justice and care. Growing up in Atlanta, Ga and with roots across Senegambia, she is inspired by Black feminist schools of thought and how diaspora, identity, and culture inform one another. She enters OHMA with a practice built around the conviction that what counts as educationally significant must be as nuanced as the communities it is meant to serve, and that film, audio, and mixed media do not supplement scholarship, they are the mediums that expand its access and memorialization.
Professionally, Aminah has served as a Communications and Research Intern at Noor, a transnational feminist think-and-do-tank combating fascism and fundamentalism, where she supports the production of multimedia content. She has also served as the Assistant Director on a documentary about freedom of movement with the UndocuBlack Network, conducting interviews with Black immigrants navigating international borders. Currently, she is developing an independent documentary on Black migrant self-preservation in Athens, Greece. Aminah holds a Bachelor of Arts in Critical Theory and Social Justice with a minor in Black Studies from Occidental College. She believes that first-hand testimony and community collaboration is infrastructure for collective repair, and she is excited to deepen that conviction at OHMA.
