Toluwanimi Obiwole

Toluwanimi Obiwole is a Nigerian multidisciplinary artist who explores her art through poetry, visual art, curation and textile production. She is a seasoned storyteller, poet, and visual artist with a dedication to re-indigenization, intergenerational healing, and cultural memory keeping. She was the former Youth Poet Laureate for the State of Colorado and has received awards for DEI storytelling from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a two time TEDx speaker, has published a book of poems with Penmanship Books in New York City and has been published in Haymarket Books' most recent iteration of The Breakbeat Poets. Her practice as a storyteller has opened the door for her to introduce poetic storytelling methods to people who otherwise would not engage with poetry.