Ama Codjoe is an American social justice activist, dancer and a Pushcart-nominated poet. She was a

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fellow, a Callaloo Writers Workshop fellow, and one of Black Bottom’s Tuesday Poets. Codjoe received the Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellowship from

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and is the former Associate Director of Professional Development for the DreamYard Art Center.

Education

* Codjoe received her M.F.A. in Dance Performance from

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