S1E2: Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones

Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones is an artist scholar and professor emeritus in the African and African diaspora studies department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her scholarship focuses on performance ethnography, theatrical jazz, Yoruba based aesthetics, black feminisms and activist theater. As the founder of the Austin Project, a collective of women of color artists, scholars, activists, and allies who use art for re-imagining society and the creator Sista Docta, a critique of the Academy and just being an overall generous spirit Omi is what happens when Britt and Mya make a wish upon a star for the perfect guest.