facultyexplore advaya’s teachers
Explore advaya's faculty of teachers, scientists, practitioners, philosophers and storytellers, who share multidimensional, local and diverse narratives from across the world.
Bayo Akomolafe
Sophie Strand
Satish Kumar
Vandana Shiva
Veronica Strang
Manda Scott
Beloved Sara Zaltash
David Abram
Dr Andreas Weber
David Whyte
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic
Charles Eisenstein
Aisha Paris Smith
Brontë Velez
Neema Githere
Neema Githere (b. Nairobi, Kenya) is a writer, artist, and grassroots theorist whose work explores love and indigeneity in a time of algorithmic debris. Having dreamt themselves into the world via the internet from an early age, Githere’s work prototypes relationality-as-art through experiments that span community organizing, social design, travel and image-making. Githere is a 2023-24 Practitioner Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University, where they are working on a project entitled “Data Healing: A Call for Repair”.
Having dreamt themselves into the world via the internet from an early age, Neema Githere’s work prototypes relationality-as-art through experiments that span curation, community organizing, social design, travel and image-making. Githere (b. Nairobi, Kenya) has been building a research-based embodiment practice since 2016, beginning with a project called #digitaldiaspora which traveled to over 20 countries exploring how Afrodiasporic creatives were articulating new identities on- and offline.
Githere’s concept of Afropresentism–a term they coined in 2017 to explore diasporic embodiment in the age of Big Data–has influenced conferences and exhibitions in four continents. A co-author of the 2023 Lonely Planet guidebook for Kenya, Githere’s current travels are focused around exploring the ancient ruins scattered across the Swahili Coast of East Africa. Githere is a 2023-24 Practitioner Fellow at Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab, where she is working on a project entitled “Data Healing: A Call for Repair” that employs indigenous value systems to develop a digital rehabilitation clinic.
