Shola Jimoh is an interdisciplinary Nigerian-American scholar from the western suburbs of Illinois. Both interpersonally and intellectually, she is fascinated by the cultural frictions and tensions of the Afro-diasporic experience; or, the convoluted polyrhythms of being, belonging, and (be)coming to global blackness. Shola holds a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health with the highest distinction from the University of Illinois-Chicago, along with a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.
