Sistah Staff
Born in Las Vegas, Salome Asega is an Ethiopian visual artist, writer, and independent curator working in Brooklyn. She received her BA in Transnational Visual Art and Social Practice from the Gallatin School at NYU. Consumed in the ways we can employ art practices to communicate cross-culturally, Salome explores History, Memory, and Nostalgia to discover the affinities that bleed beyond border lines.
Sonia Louise Davis
Sonia Louise Davis is an artist and photographer from New York City. Her work mines the public and private archive, exploring collective memory and family history through physical traces of the past, and in collaborative community-based projects. Her work has been exhibited in traditional galleries and local community spaces in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Sonia received a BA with honors in African American Studies from Wesleyan University.
Born and bred in Striver’s Row Harlem, Tamara Davidson is a musician, poetess, shawomen and yoga instructor. Tamara has studied classical music in England, Rumba in Cuba, and jazz as well is hip-hop. She received her BA from the Gallatin School at NYU where she created her own interdisciplinary concentration entitled Black Girl Psalms. Tamara’s concentration included jazz vocal performance, creative writing, and Africana Studies. Tamara currently resides in Harlem where she writes prayers on her guitar, and practices yoga. Tamara is a modern day healer who uses music, words, and meditation to help people find a more holistic way of living their lives.
Eden Jeffries is a creative writer, performance poet and visual artist who is interested in the intersections of creative expression, language, and power. Inspired by the bold, honest, and magnetic nature of all forms of art, Eden hopes to use creative expression as a means to promote social change, facilitate community empowerment, and encourage self-exploration.
Ericka Ward
Ericka Ward is a black woman nomad. She’s lived in Seattle, San Antonio, Dallas, NYC, Havana, Buenos Aires and is still on the move. She studied activism, culture and communication at NYU Gallatin. She is passionate about storytelling and exploring radically democratic ways of empowering voices, especially the voices of working class communities of color.
