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Margaret Amaka Ohia-Nowak

I am a critical linguist, and a diversity consultant and anti-discrimination trainer.

In 2010 I graduated from the Black Europe Summer School and Dimensions of Citizenship, Race and Ethnic Relations, a research seminar on racism, xenophobia, black women equality and human rights. In 2012 I was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to conduct my doctoral research at the Department of African–American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. I was then a Visiting Fellow at the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley with specific focus on race and gender relations in public discourse. I was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Race, Ethnicity and Migration, City University London.

In 2014, I received my doctoral degree with the thesis “Racism against people of African descent in Polish language and public discourse” from the University of Wroclaw. My focus is primarily on anti-black racism, stereotypes, and hate speech. I author and co-author lesson scenarios, educational materials and scientific publications on cross-cultural, human rights, anti-discrimination and global education topics.

I have published and presented academically on race and racism in contemporary public discourse, racist discourse and representations of black ethnic/gender minorities portrayed by media discourse in Poland and CEE. I conduct trainings for various organisations and training centres including Warsaw Center for Educational and Social Innovation and Training, Polish Humanitarian Action, Global Learning Network, Facebook, British Embassy Warsaw, Open Institute, the Critical Education Association and the WrOpenUp Foundation amongst others. I currently teach at the Tischner European University in Krakow. I am a member of the Never Again Association, Association of Poles of African Descent (SPPA) and the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research. 

I was raised both in Poland and in Nigeria.