Enuma Okoro

For our August gathering on the theme of “Critical,” writer and speaker Enuma Okoro will speak to the value and power of questions. Putting our desires for answers aside, and remaining open and receptive to questions, where they come from, to whom they are directed, and what they seek to access, Okoro suggests ways we might open or block pathways for more expansive living with ourselves or one with one another. Join us on August 5 to discover how questions can guide, transform, and challenge us.

About Enuma Okoro


Enuma Okoro is a Nigerian-American writer, teacher, and speaker whose work focuses on arts, culture, spirituality, and how we live. She’s a columnist for “The Art of Life” at The Financial Times Weekend. She also curates, moderates, and hosts public conversations with artists, writers, culture makers and thought leaders. Enuma has degrees in Psychology, Communications, and Theology, and is trained as a certified Spiritual Director in the Jesuit tradition. She teaches creative nonfiction writing workshops and seminars, and speaks globally at universities, organizations, corporate institutions, and conferences. Her TEDx talk focused on how cultural collisions crack open new sides of our own stories.

She has written and edited four nonfiction books, her poetry is published in anthologies, and her essays and articles have been featured in The New York Times, The Financial Times, Aeon, Vogue, The Cut, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Bazaar US, Artsy, Catapult, NYU’s Washington Square Review, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Essence, NPR, ABC’s Good Morning America, and other media outlets. Enuma was born in Manhattan, and raised in Cote d’Ivoire, England, North America and Nigeria. She is working on her first novel.