Tureeda Mikell

Oakland native, story medicine woman, poet, educator and activist for holism, Black Panther Alum, received the 2024 Berkeley Poetry Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She has traveled extensively from Egypt to China. Author of Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine (2020), Patrice Lumumba Anthology , (co-curated 2021), and her full-length magical-realism collection, The Body: Oracle of Memory, Black Lawrence Press, 2024.