Nekessa Opoti
Nekessa Opoti is the Communications Director at Black Alliance for Justice Immigration, one of the co-founders of the Minnesota-based Black Immigrant Collective and a member of the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project. Opoti is an award-winning journalist (recovering), editor, producer, writer, communications strategist, and immigrant justice organizer. As a multimedia storyteller, she promotes a grassroots articulation of often ignored and marginalized voices. Through her work, she explores race specifically anti-Black racism, class, migration and displacement, education, gender, sexuality, identity, and belonging from a queer Black femme immigrant lens.