Speakers
- Kanyinsola Anifowoshe
- Curator, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Kanyinsola Anifowoshe is an 18 year old Nigerian-American who is a freshman at Yale University pursuing majors in Art History and Sociology. As curator of the In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, she sought to honor the intergenerational and historically excluded creative legacies of Black women through workshops and exhibitions. She has served as editor-in-chief of Wahala Zine, a platform for the creative work of young people in the Nigerian diaspora, and host of The Now podcast where she interviews young creatives. As a co-organizer with Fempowerment Chicago and Youth for Black Lives, she used artistic expression as a tool for the political empowerment of young people. She is usually thinking and writing about the architecture of justice, radical hope, and building new art histories.