Holding Space: A Storytelling Approach to Trampling Diversity and Inclusion

By Aminata Cairo and Dafri Studios

In Holding Space Aminata Cairo presents her own, unique vision in the promotion of inclusion that far surpasses the standard diversity & inclusion approach. She grounds her work in indigenous knowledge, the blues aesthetics, holy hip hop, and Caribbean and black feminist theories. She engages her audience utilizing storytelling, with the ult

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aminata Cairo
• Release date: Jun 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9789083157924

Aminata Cairo

Aminata Cairo is an anthropologist, psychologist, educator, storyteller, and "love-worker". She is an independent consultant "who works with people". She is the former lector of Inclusive Education at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. She was the first and only research professor of African descent in the Netherlands. Born in the Netherlands to Surinamese parents she left for the US at age 18 where she pursued her academic career. She returned to the Netherlands after 30 years and obtaining two Master's degrees and a Ph.D. In the Netherlands she utilizes her academic, community activist and artist skills to make a difference and has a special affinity for the stories that are overlooked, silenced or marginalized.

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