Walida Imarisha is a writer, educator, public scholar, and poet. Through Oregon Humanities’ Conversation Project, she has toured Oregon for six years facilitating programs on Oregon Black history, alternatives to incarceration, and the history of hiphop. Walidah is co-editor of two anthologies, Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements (AK Press, Spring 2015) and the 9/11 collection Another World is Possible (Subway Press, 2002). She authored the poetry book Scars/Stars (Drapetomedia, 2013) and the nonfiction Angels with Dirty Faces: Dreaming Beyond Bars (AK Press, Fall 2016). She currently teaches in Portland State University’s Black Studies Department.
