An Atlanta native who is currently residing in New York, Mshi Siyhanda majored in African American Studies at Georgia State University and is a passionate early childhood educator. Mshairi is one of the founding members of The Nalo Movement, an Atlanta based theater collective. She is also one of the founding members of Wildseeds Octavia Butler Emergent Strategies collective in New Orleans and an active member of The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. She practices ARTivism as a poet, writer and artist who is committed to social justice as a proud Black feminist, woman of color and nationalist.