Agunda Okeyo
Bio:
Agunda Okeyo is a writer, producer, and alchemist born in Nairobi and raised in New York City. Okeyo writes from a global perspective about race, gender, politics, and culture in nonfiction and fiction. Okeyo is CEO of Africa Underground Productions (AU), which focuses on creating content for the African diaspora though welcome to all. Through AU, she created the revered Black women-centered live production “Sisters of Comedy” launched at Gotham Comedy Club then Carolines on Broadway. Sisters has been in the New York Comedy Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and Afropunk Festival.
As writers and actors continue their work stoppage, are recent improvements in representation and opportunity in jeopardy?
A new partnership of the NoVo Foundation and the Goren Group, a woman-owned real estate development firm, plans to transform the site of a notorious women's prison into a new center for activism and collaboration.