Writer, Artist, and Founder of Activation Residency
Kamra Sadia Abdul-Hakim (they/m) is a Black American transgender artist hailing from O'odham Jeweḍ land, resourced by Munsee Lenape land, so-called Bethel, NY (Hebrew translation “house of God”) situated in and near Kauneonga Lake (apocryphal Munsee translation “like the wings of a bird”). Hakim has a graduate degree from New York University Center for Global Affairs School of Professional Studies.
Hakim is the author of Care Manual: Dreaming Care Into Being; musician behind Kamra; and founder of Activation Residency. Kamra thinks, feels, and performs to storymake garden futures and participates in a lineage of care weaving themes of remembering how to talk to each other with respect, reverence, beauty, and skill through art ecosystems in writing, performance, and permaculture design.