A. Mimi Sei | Featured Artist
Photo provided by Niah Sei
Aminata R. Sei (Mimi) is a writer and social justice advocate. She is working on a creative nonfiction account, The Universe Calls Me Daughter, that will chronicle her experiences in Africa, America, and Asia. She graduated from the Anderson Schools of Management at the University of New Mexico. Mimi is reading for a Master of Liberal Arts degree concentrating in Creative Writing and Literature at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. She has showcased essays and written for Huffington Post, and has penned several articles for Medium.
She is a 2017 inaugural writer for the Stanford University Alumni Writers’ Critique Group, Oregon Chapter. Mimi has also contributed to projects with renowned composers, Interim Music Director and Artistic Advisor for the Portland Opera Damien Geter, and the University of Michigan Director of Choral Activities Eugene Rogers. Her text, Breathe, written for A Cantata for A More Hopeful Tomorrow, premiered with the Washington Chorus in 2020. With Geter she authored the foreword for An African American Requiem, which premiered at the Oregon Symphony in May 2022. In March 2023, she will collaborate with Resonance Ensemble and famed Chicago Opera Vanguard Composer Matthew Recio.
On November 9th, 2016, she wrote “Unite Gather, Heal, Move On,” published by Huffington Post. In October 2018, she showcased two essays and was a featured speaker at Writing as Resistance, a forum discussion on the purposeful and effective use of writing for activism. In 2019, she wrote Sierra Leone - Influencing Change from a Distance. It was featured at the Model UN Forum at the Dalian American International School in Dalian, China. She is also a contributing writer for the quarterly Convent Scoop from St. Joseph’s Secondary School in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
She is the former President of the Catlin Gabel School Parent/Faculty Association, as well as the Trustee and Chair of the School’s Board Inclusion and Diversity Committee. She is passionate about Inclusion and Equity efforts, especially at educational institutions, and is vested in creating safe and welcome spaces to facilitate insightful dialogue and exchange.
Mimi is also a Board Member of the Northwest Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and The Resonance Ensemble.
She is an avid reader and a lover of music and all things African. Mimi lives in Portland, Oregon.
You can learn more about Mimi and her work at the links below:
Mimi appears on these Resonance programs: