Margaret Amaka Ohia-Nowak is an Assistant Professor of Discourse and Media Studies at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the Marie Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Her work focuses on race and representations of Blackness in social communication and the media, anti-Black racist discourses in Poland and inclusive language. She is a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant and trainer with 15 years of experience, and a racial justice activist. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a founder and president of the Centre for Intersectional Justice Poland and a co-founder of the Alliance for Black Justice in Poland.

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