Nnennaya Amuchie is an African/Indigenous Igbo queer, gender-liberated movement lawyer, public historian, community archivist, educator, organizer, advocate, and traditional healer with roots planted and sprouted in so-called California. They live by the Igbo proverb Onye Aghala Nwanneya [Never leave your sibling behind/You are your people’s keeper/No one is free until we are all free]. Nnennaya knows of an abundant future where Black/African Indigenous children have full autonomy and self determination/sovereignty over their social, political, spiritual, economic, physical, educational, and psychological well-being with the support and guidance of their communities. Nnennaya fights to abolish the anti-Black criminal punishment system through ancestor-led fortification and the restoration and strengthening of our collective and individual relationships with the earth. 

Nnennaya was active in the California Black Student movements, international, national, and local abolitionist organizing campaigns #FreeBlackMamas, #8toAbolition, #SayHerName, #SheSafeWeSafe #NoNewJails #DecrimNow #DefundPolice #AbolishICE #InvestDivest, international movements to end colonial/imperialist economic domination, military intervention, and LGBTQIA+ criminalization. Furthermore, Nnennaya worked on state and federal reproductive justice policy, including expanding medicaid coverage of abortion and eviction defense for Black women throughout the Los Angeles and San Bernardino County areas.

Nnennaya is the published author of “The Forgotten Victims” How Racialized Gender Stereotypes Lead to Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls: Incorporating an Analysis of Police Violence Into Feminist Jurisprudence and Community Activism.