A. Nia Austin-Edwards (ANAE)

 (yeye/they)

OPERATIONS & ADMINISTRATION CONSULTANT

Nia is a southern-ish queer Black nonbinary witch*-child of the Edwards and Austin clans. Grand-witch-child of the Cole and Greene clans. And great-grand-witch-child of many more.

Yeye’s dance began in a mother’s womb, developed in Atlanta, GA at Total Dance / Dancical Productions, Inc., and was further formalized through Tri-Cities Visual and Performing Arts Magnet High School and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

This lifelong choreography has cultivated Nia’s praxis of collective care through writing, performing, creating, marketing, listening, mothering, and more. Nia named and claimed PURPOSE Productions during Kwanzaa of 2012. For 11 years, this collective of anti-capitalist freelancers supported artists and organizers in the mothering of purpose-full work that unified and developed our world community. *In the traditions indigenous to the many lands of Nia’s people, a witch is a healer and worker for the community.