jada-amina is a Black Indigenous American new genres artist, curator, and cultural worker born and based on the South Side of Chicago. Working across sound, writing, video, and collage, she explores memory, migration, and materiality through the historical and cultural contexts of the Black Atlantic. Rooted in Black feminist and faith traditions, her practice attends to tenderness and violence, and to the ways images shape our encounters with one another.

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She is pursuing an MFA in Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. She serves as Curator of the Black Harvest Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center and Public Programs and Engagement Manager at the South Side Community Art Center. Her film programming also includes the Black Perspectives program at the Chicago International Film Festival.