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Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm

Erisa Apantaku (she/her) is a Black/biracial, queer journalist, filmmaker, and educator from the lands of the Three Fires Confederacy of the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi (Chicagoland). Erisa was a producer on the Invisible Institute’s award-winning podcast You Didn’t See Nothin. Outside of the Invisible Institute, Erisa also produces short audio and video documentaries examining topics including race and sexuality through a process that centers curiosity and seeks to be vulnerable and generative. Erisa is in post-production on her first short fiction film Nya Does Nothing, about a Black woman just trying to take a day off.

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