About the Author

Esther A. Armah is a self-described global Black chick who claims three cities on three continents as home. Creative home = New York; birth home = London; spiritual and ancestral home = Accra. Each home is where she practiced journalism and wrote her plays, and each was a key contributor in developing the visionary Emotional Justice roadmap.

Armah is an international award-winning journalist who worked with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for ten years in London and was host of Pacifica Radio WBAI’s Wakeup Call in New York. As founder and director of EAA Media Productions, she hosted and executive-produced The Spin, a podcast that aired online and on community radio stations in the US, Ghana, and Nigeria. From the mic to the stage, Armah has written five plays that have been produced and performed in New York, Chicago, and Accra, Ghana.

Globally, she has worked in London, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa. From journalist to teacher, Armah was a media communications lecturer with Webster University Ghana and the African University College of Communications (AUCC), and a commentator and consultant working with multiple media houses.

Armah’s Emotional Justice essays have been published in books and other publications. They include the New York Times best seller Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619–2019, coedited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain; Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence, coedited by Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain; and the award-winning Love with Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse, edited by Aishah Shahidah Simmons. Armah’s Emotional Justice essays have been featured in publications including WARSCAPES, Ebony.com, AlterNet, Essence.com, Gawker.com, and Jay Z’s 4:44 Syllabus by Anthony Boynton. The Emotional Justice roadmap was written about in the Guardian, and cited in the New York Times by critically acclaimed author Robert Jones Jr. as an inspiration for his book The Prophets.

Armah’s work has led to her scooping awards in the US and Africa. For her Emotional Justice work, she won the Community Healer Award at the 2016 Valuing Black Lives Global Emotional Emancipation Summit in Washington DC. Esther was named Most Valuable NY Radio Host in The Nation’s 2012 Progressive Honors List for her work on Wakeup Call on Pacifica’s WBAI.