Margaret Amaka Ohia-Nowak is an Assistant Professor with habilitation degree at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the Marie Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. She is also a faculty member in Women’s and Gender Studies (GEMMA) at the University of Łódź and at the Black Europe Summer School in Amsterdam. She holds a habilitation in Communication and Media Sciences, a PhD in Linguistics, and an MA in Cultural Studies. She is the author of the book “Antyczarny rasizm. Język – dyskurs – komunikacja” [Anti-Black Racism. Language-Discourse-Communication] (2025) and several academic and popular articles on racism and anti-racism in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe, including the “Anti-racist Dictionary” (2024). She is the 2024 Susan Treadwell Memorial Award recipient, the 2024-2025 Obama Foundation Europe Leader, and a Fulbright scholar. 

She combines an academic career with public engagement and a strong activist spirit, comprehensively employing strategies and methods of Black and intersectional feminism. She is a co-founder and a co-director of the Black Justice Poland Foundation, and an amazing movement educator. She has primarily advocated for Black, African, and Afro-descendant communities and has been involved in numerous initiatives and projects to promote equity and cultural awareness and create spaces for radical community care. 

As a person, Margaret walks the talk, despite the fact that as the only known Black female social-science scholar in Poland, and one of only several Black Polish feminists, her position is extremely uneasy and demanding. She is highly valued for her respectful generosity towards younger Black Poles (female, male, queer, or whatever), mainly from outside of academia, and for her clear (and ultimately political) empowering stance. More about her work can be found here: https://www.umcs.pl/pl/addres-book-employee,16577,en.html