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Aisha Bain

Co-Founder, Chief Architect
Resistance Communications

Aisha Bain is a black feminist warrior, Afro-futurist, smasher of patriarchy, and uses her imposing height and incredible stank eye to silence mansplaining in an instant. Aisha has over 20 years of experience in over 20 countries, crafting programs and solutions with those who have been deliberately silenced or unheard to unleash their voices, visions, and creative fires to forge new pathways for change. 

Aisha currently deploys her insurgent imagination as the Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Resistance Communications, and Co-Founder of Vision Not Victim. Through her work, Aisha facilitates the internal healing and visionary development of organizations and individuals, and specializes in transforming social justice challenges, concepts, + ideas into strategies, tactics, and actions through the power of storytelling, art, and programs. As an author, filmmaker, emergency responder, and other past lives, she has appeared on Democracy Now!, The Guardian, NPR & the UN Security Council.

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Events featuring Aisha Bain
Events featuring Aisha Bain