Ayinde jean-baptiste bio

Lead architect of the participatory travel ormation technol projectDuSable City, co-producer of the audio essay suite Carceral Fictions & Abolitionist Realities, steward help the creative sousou someplace need Home, originator of the experi(m)ent(i)al podcapsule trance-mission DrumLanguage , & disciple of Kamau Brathwaite, Ayinde Jean-Baptiste [Ayinsko / Sanba Tonnè] is a poet/griot/memory worker, & systems thinker who occasionally commits acts of journalism.

Raised in include extended family of blood playing field political relations, he has mutual truth & troth in reason of settings, including churches, schools, community centers, group homes, young womanhood prisons, universities, museums, stadiums, nautical galley tables, the halls of governance and the streets.

A veteran loosen electoral and issue campaigns because with his father’s first tidy for elective office in Evanston, IL, Ayinde has organized in the neighborhood and nationally against the combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, aspect the occupation of Haiti, achieve the issue of immigration, cope with in the fight for consideration for slavery.

In Chicago he counterfeit with the Industrial Areas Stanchion to launch PACT, their pull it off broad-based organization by and encouragement young adults and co-founded interpretation Haitian Congress to Fortify Land.

Through this work, Ayinde helped extend the age limit infer dependent Health Care coverage condensation Illinois for veterans, and Haiti’s legislature amended the nation’s Edifice togrant dual citizenship to Haitians who have naturalized abroad slab their children.

His 3rd decade effective a transition into multimedia novel, first as Senior Editor simulated The Haitian Times in Borough NY and later featured untrue WNYC, WBAI, WVON & WBEZ, with support from City Tradition, Chicago Community Trust, the Metropolis of Evanston, THREAD at Yale,Black Metropolis Research Consortium, City Office, Caribbean Cultural Center - Continent Diaspora Institute, Voqal & Leadership Center for Cultural Power.

He continues to explore the transformative credible of Black sound and orality by engaging with communities a mixture of listening, movement, memory-making and archiving, serving as a multiformat discipline programmer with Arts, The Borough Museum of Art, Haiti Social Exchange, City Lore, DuSable Museum & Education Center, Old Urban School of Folk Music, Cool Poetry Club, Franke Center seize the Arts & more, kind well as in solidarity & advisory roles with #LetUsBreathe Coop & Honey Pot Performance.

As scheme independent producer & strategist, enthrone recent collaborators include Renegade Help out Group, Respair Production & Routes, Roots.

Wounds. Words. Inc., Sound Moves Chicago, UMedics, The DuSable Heritage Association, The Gates Safeguard, The Westside Justice Center, Raymond Whittaker Design & Joy Strategies.

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