Ayana Zaire Cotton

Ayana Zaire Cotton is an anti-disciplinary worker from Prince George’s County, Maryland. Based in Dawn, Virginia—tucked in between the ancestral lands of the Mattaponi and Youghtanund—they are answering the call to steward land that has been in their family for four generations. Ayana recently founded Seeda School, a skill building platform for learning how to code through a black feminist lens, where she publishes a newsletter and podcast titled Soft, Where?. Through the ecosystem of their practice Ayana braids abstraction, teaching, and worldbuilding to engage our collective imagination around the technologies we need in the world we desire.

Photo & Bio courtesy of the artist.