Minna Salami is a feminist author, thought leader, and program chair with over 15 years of experience shaping public conversations on feminism, African knowledge systems, and sociocultural transformation.

As Senior Fellow and Chair of the Black Feminism and the Polycrisis programme at THE NEW INSTITUTE, she works at the intersection of ideas, culture, and systems thinking and is dedicated to making complex theories accessible through books, essays, public speaking, and creative projects.

Salami is the author of Can Feminism Be African? (Harper Collins, 2025) and Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone (Bloomsbury, 2020), which has been translated into multiple languages. In addition to these works, she has contributed chapters and essays to numerous other books, anthologies, and educational publications exploring feminism, African philosophy, media, and cultural criticism.

Her writing has been featured in The Guardian, Financial Times,  Project Syndicate, Al Jazeera, Die Zeit, and The Philosopher. She has delivered talks at TEDx, the EU, Friends of Europe, the Oxford and Cambridge Unions, Yale, and Singularity University at NASA.

Salami was the creative director of the short film Black Feminism and the Polycrisis, which won the Silver Award for Public Service and Activism at the 2024 Lovie Awards.

From 2019 to 2022, Salami co-directed Activate, an intersectional feminist movement that supported minoritized women in politics and community organizing through visibility campaigns, strategic mentoring, and fundraising initiatives. This initiative played a key role in shifting narratives and resources towards a more inclusive and representative political landscape in the UK.

She has also worked as a Research Associate and Editor at Perspectiva, advised governments on gender equality, developed national school curricula, and curated cultural events, including at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Her blog MsAfropolitan, launched in 2010, has reached over a million readers and remains a platform for exploring feminist and African-centred approaches to contemporary issues.

Salami is a Full Member of the Club of Rome, a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader, and serves on the advisory boards of the African Feminist Initiative at Penn State University and Public Humanities at Cambridge University Press, and the council of the British Royal Institute of Philosophy.

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Activist, researcher, journalist, emergent dialogue practitioner, and transformative educator, Elizabeth Debold, Ed.D., calls herself a “gender futurist,” for her lifelong interest in our core identities and the unfolding of culture. Her New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Mother Daughter Revolution, was based on groundbreaking research conducted with Dr. Carol Gilligan at Harvard University. For the past decade, she has been an editor of evolve Magazin, a German-language quarterly, where she writes feature articles on gender. Elizabeth has been sought as an expert commentator by major media outlets in the U.S. and abroad (including NPR, Good Morning America, and Oprah). She served as Academic Director of the Master of Arts program in Conscious Evolution at The Graduate Institute, and has taught at Harvard University and the New School for Social Research. For over thirty years, she has been engaged in discovering and exploring the potentials of collective emergence. With her partner, Dr. Thomas Steininger, she has developed a dialogical process of “Emergent Interbeing,” that enables us to co-consciously engage with differences to create unexpected synergies. Through the platform of evolve World, she, Thomas, and their team of practitioners seek, in some small but meaningful way, to catalyze islands of coherence in a fragmented world. Through events such as the 24-hour online vigil One World Bearing Witness, she is helping to bring sacred activism into the global digital age. She lives in Frankfurt, Germany, and is working on a book about interbeing and emergence.