Jessica Angima

Jessica Angima is a first-generation Kenyan American cultural producer and healing artist, working in the modality of meditation. In a constant state of process, she facilitates intimate community through the exploration of art, justice and contemplative practice.

What drew you to the MA Arts Politics program?

In the past few years, I have found it increasingly difficult to succinctly describe what it is that I "do". I teach meditation, I work in arts administration, I am involved with various social justice initiatives. I was drawn to the M.A. Arts Politics program because it welcomes interdisciplinary work. It offers space for artists, scholars, administrators, even biologists to learn, play, and to live in a liminal space that defies categorization. The program offers me a framework for exploring how I want my work to exist in the world while showing me that there is no need to reduce that work, or my title to just one "thing".