Ashia S. Ajani, 2025
OSGF
Eliza Moore Fellow 2025
Ashia S. Ajani (they/she) is a multidisciplinary writer based in Oakland, CA and a UC Berkeley Lecturer in African American Studies. Their work examines the use of storytelling to connect climate education with memory preservation, and are currently developing a collection of lyric essays that interrogates the relationship between ecologically deemed nonhuman "pests'' and undesirable human populations.