Aminah Ghaffar will be our guest this Saturday, Dec. 14th!

Aminah is Lumbee and Black activist from Pembroke, NC. She studied Biology at East Carolina University, where she also competed for the track team in the 400 hurdles and heptathlon. She also completed a Masters in Physiology and Biophysics with a concentration in Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Georgetown University in May 2018.

She is currently applying to medical school and working as a Medical Scribe in North Carolina. She is an Indigenous Advocate and focuses most of her advocacy on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and children, and culturally sensitive methods to treat historical trauma in marginalized populations.

She is a two-time speaker at the Women’s March Annapolis, Shifting the Paradigm Back to Humanity, and a one-time speaker at Women’s Day: The Other 365 Days sponsored by Lululemon. She has volunteered in multiple underserved communities including her home town in Robeson County, NC, Navajo Nation in Tuba City, AZ, and Minnesota with members of the Anishinabek community.

Her passions include justice for women, improved access to resources for marginalized communities, and reducing epistemicide and erasure of Native American history in the western education paradigm.