Esther Armah

• Esther Armah

Esther Armah is an international award-winning journalist; she is a playwright, a Media Communications lecturer and a Radio Host. Armah coined the term ‘Emotional Justice’ and creates content exploring emotionality and the legacy of untreated trauma among global Black peoples. Armah is a daughter of the diaspora who currently lives in Ghana. There, she is a front-page columnist for Business & Financial Times, connecting global dots in Ghana and beyond between gender, policy & politics, leadership and emotionality. Armah wrote and directed her fifth play, #safeCARGO in Accra. She is Director of EAA Media Productions where she curates conversations on media and gender. Esther lived and worked in New York for eight years. She was a Radio Host on the daily morning show ‘Wake Up Call ‘for New York’s WBAI, for which she was named ‘Most Valuable NY Radio Host’ by The Nation’s ‘2012 Progressive Honor Roll’. She is Host & Executive Producer of The Spin: All Women Media Panel, named by Clutch magazine as 1 of the Top 10 podcasts by Black women. Armah ‘s essays on Emotional Justice have been published in Gawker, AlterNet, Ebony.com, Salon.com, Essence.com, Global Grind. They have been published in books: ‘Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence’; Love With Accountability and Black Cool. Armah was a regular political commentator on MSNBC and appeared on ‘All In With Chris Hayes’, The Melissa Harris Perry Show, ‘Up with Chris Hayes’. She also appeared on CNN and BET. She wrote four plays that were produced and performed in New York and Chicago: SAVIOUR!, ‘Forgive Me?’ Entitled! and ‘Can I Be Me? As a speaker with her Emotional Justice work, Esther has appeared at Omega Women’s Leadership Conference, Stanford. In 2016, Armah won the Community Award for her Emotional Justice work at the Washington DC ‘Valuing Black Lives: Global Emotional Emancipation Conference’. Esther lived and worked in London for 10 years. She worked as a journalist with British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in radio and television. Her writing appeared in The Guardian, The Weekly Journal and West Africa magazine. As a journalist, Esther has worked in and travelled to Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Lesotho, New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia and Chicago. Esther currently lives in Ghana.