Jawno Okhiulu

Resident Assistant, Garden, Culture

Stanford University

Jawno is a Nigerian-American poet, performer, and community organizer with a passion for climate action, environmental justice, and Black futures, drawing inspiration from Afrofuturist, Black Queer feminist, and Solarpunk traditions. They hold two Bachelor’s degrees in African & African American Studies and Human Biology from Stanford University, where they concentrated on health and development within marginalized communities, ancestry, intersectionality, and the arts. They have experience teaching workshops on race, writing, and Black Land Ethic for young people and work with the Decolonizing Wealth Project to support Black and Indigenous liberation through healing and resource mobilization. Through their art and activism, Jawno strives to inspire personal and societal transformation, inviting people to engage with the world differently and take action toward a just and equitable future. In their free time, they love to create, play basketball, go hiking, play chess, and read books. They’re excited to be returning staff at [HS]2, and they graduated from the program in 2016!