A. Mimi Sei | Featured Artist
Photo provided by Niah Sei
A. Mimi Sei is a poet and writer. She graduated from the Anderson Schools of Management at the University of New Mexico, and is currently reading for a Master of Liberal Arts degree concentrating in Creative Writing and Literature at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. She is working on a creative nonfiction account, The Universe Calls Me Daughter, that will chronicle her lived experiences in Africa, America, and Asia.
She is a 2017 inaugural writer for the Stanford University Alumni Writers’ Critique Group, Oregon Chapter. Her work has been commissioned by Interim Music Director and Artistic Advisor for the Portland Opera, Damien Geter, the University of Michigan Director of Choral Activities, Eugene Rogers, and world- class Jazz Pianist and Portland State University Professor, Darrell Grant. Mimi continues to write as a librettist for classical music commissions and has showcased her work with other renowned composers and with several orchestras across the States.
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. Her poem, As it Were, was the culminating feature in the Fall 2024 issue of Studio Magazine, for the Studio Museum in Harlem. She continually shares her musings on Medium; https://medium.com/@sei-mimi
Mimi currently serves on the board of THE LAURA FUND, a foundation committed to research and finding a cure for Multiple Sclerosis. She also sits on the board of CAMP ELSO, a community based environmental education non-profit organization that connects underrepresented children to nature and the environment. Mimi is a former President of the Catlin Gabel School Parent/Faculty Association, where she also served as Trustee, and Chair of the school’s Board Inclusion and Diversity Committee.
Mimi is an often commissioned poet for Resonance Ensemble. She is an avid reader and a lover of music and all things African. Mimi navigates life and her MS while living in Portland, Oregon.
Mimi appears on these Resonance programs: