Jessica Angima is a first-generation Kenyan American organizer and social practice artist. In a constant state of process, she facilitates intimate community through the exploration of art, justice, and contemplative practice.
Her identities as the daughter of Kenyan immigrants and a Black American woman deeply inform her community-based practice. Her work primarily focuses on deep vulnerability, using meditation and creative practices as methods of awakening consciousness. Jessica blends dharma, ancestral wisdom and poetics to decenter European frames of thought and lead herself and others toward liberation.
Jessica was a 2019 Create Change Fellow at The Laundromat Project and holds an MA in Arts Politics from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She is a 2023 More Arts Engaging Artists Fellow, a member of Inner Fields Collective and serves as Deputy Training Director at Arena.
Jessica lives in Brooklyn, New York on unceded Lenape territory with her cat and her books.
Jessica Angima
