Rita Nketiah

Rita Nketiah

Rita Nketiah is a creative writer, academic and feminist. She has published in various outlets including This Is Africa (TIA), Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women and Pambazuka. Rita is also a VONA alum (Voices of Our Nation Writing Workshop) participating in the 2012 Political Content in Memoir Writing cohort. She is currently completing her PhD research in Critical Human Geography at York University, with a focus on second-generation immigrant transnationalism among young adults of Ghanaian origin.

She holds an Honours Bachelors and Masters in Women and Gender Studies from Western University and the University of Toronto, respectively. Rita is currently an advisory board member for the Sankofa Initiative (ISDAO), a new LGBT fund supporting activists in West Africa. She also has over ten (10) years of experience of feminist activism with a focus on Black/African women's empowerment, anti-racism and Pan-Africanist movement-building. Rita currently works for the African Women's Development Fund as the Knowledge Management Specialist.