Meet the team!

Sankofa is led by eight members of the Diasporic Black community in Montreal. We come from the lands of Senegal, Tchad, Rwanda, Haiti, Jamaica, South Africa, Cape Verde, and Angola—and we are proudly Queer.

ADJO

CAELIN

OURANIA

TAMIA

DIVINE

AKIRA

SIOBHAN

SONA

  • Farm Operations & Administration

    Adjo aka AdjoOnEarth is an Ayisien perpetual student of the land. They’ve been living in so called Canada since they were 1 years old and have since developed a very sacred relationship to that Land. They’re passionate about deepening, nurturing and celebrating their connection to Mother Earth and have recently started learning a lot about earthen buildings. They have many other fields of interests such as farming, food education and sovereignty, geology and archival practices. Adjo is very excited to be joining Sankofa and to be learning alongsides Afrodescendants looking to honor their ancestors’ traditions.

  • Administration & Funding and Finances

    Akira aka WombandSoil is an Afro-Indigenous Jewish Abolitionist knowledge seeker, kinship builder, doula, and land steward. Their work integrates birth work, land stewardship, and abolition, grounded in Black feminist and anti-fascist principles. Guided by seven-generations thinking, Akira envisions liberation as reclamation—of land, identity, and care—where Black and Afro-Indigenous people thrive, resist, and reimagine their futures..At Sankofa, Akira’s passion lies in education—developing learning opportunities through workshops on harvesting, knowledge exchange trips, and reading circles, while dreaming of a community on collectively owned land, where food sovereignty and creative, educational spaces coexist.

  • Farm Operations and Administration

    Divine (she/her) is a young woman from Rwanda who currently lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, where she’s studying human environment and sustainability at Concordia University. Growing up, Divine has had to navigate systems of oppression that marginalize her identity. As a result, her activism stems from a commitment to breaking down these structures while fostering spaces for freedom and growth. Divine is also on a personal journey to reconnect with her ancestral identity. Inspired by the principles of Sankofa, she is reclaiming her heritage and sense of self through farming and connecting with the land.

  • Creative Endeavours & Loyola Operations

    They are a recent graduate of Fine Arts, with a minor in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality. They are a South African (Khoisan), queer multidisciplinary artist, with an interest in reflecting reality and world–building. Now farmer and community organizer through Sankofa Farming cooperative. Currently based in Tiohtià:ke, born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. In Sankofa, these interests meet at a practice of reimagining the futures of our communities and the systems we find ourselves in, ones that include liberation, food sovereignty, and reconnecting to the ground to table process of food production. Their focus in Sankofa is creative directing, general organizing and outreach. Their hopes for the collective is for our long term plans to be realised, connection within our community and ongoing education/conversations about black food sovereignty.

  • Farm Operations

    I am a 24 year old queer biracial black woman. Originally from Rwanda (Abatutsi) and Greece, I am a farmer, land tender and community organizer based in Tiohtià:ke/ Mooniyang/ “Montréal”, working to uproot systems of oppression and seed collective healing by reclaiming ancestral ways of living, being, and doing. Through the Sankofa Farming Cooperative, I strive to create a space where regenerative agriculture fosters both community growth and the restoration of our connection to the land.

  • Creative Endeavours & Programming

    Siobhan, aka Club Cliché, is a queer biracial Khoisan artist-farmer. Born in Cape Town, they now live in Montreal. Their work centers on anti-colonial practices, community and self agency.They farm and create art to reconnect Afro-descendant people with their land and bodies. They promote sustainable farming and revive ancestral traditions. Through art and advocacy, Siobhan links agriculture to cultural identity. Their mission: empower communities by bridging farming and artistic practices.

  • Funding

    Tamia (she/they) is an Afro-Jamaican farmer, writer, artist, & spiritual worker based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal). Much of Tamia’s experience & approach centres the importance of sustainable living & biodiverse agricultural practices, abolitionism, ecofeminist theory, as well as the accessibility of essential resources and information for all. Her hopes and aspirations for Sankofa lie within the cooperative’s efforts in land stewardship, education, and community food sovereignty. She believes deeply in Sankofa’s mission of fostering the connection between Afro-Indigenous prosperity and access to whole foods through the labour, collaboration, and trust of tight-knit community.

  • Outreach

    Through farming I am reclaiming the authentic experience of my cultural heritage and ancestral history. It is an opportunity to connect to land and a simpler way of life that centers community.

    I write spoken word poetry, and make podcast episodes mostly venting about capitalism.

    As a Sankofa member, I resonate most with Sankofa’s mission to reclaim our indigenous ways of knowing and cultivate opportunities for our community members.

    I am an undergraduate student at Concordia University from Senegal and Tchad.