Nafeesah Allen

Nafeesah Allen, cum laude graduate of Barnard College (’06), is currently working on a Master’s of International Affairs at Columbia University, with a concentration in Social Policy of Race & Ethnicity and a certificate in Latin American Studies. She also serves as assistant program coordinator for Barnard College’s Middle Passage Initiative. She is currently a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow with the U.S. Department of State and has been a New York City Urban Fellow and has held an International Affairs Program Fellowship at Princeton University. Her literary pieces have appeared in Hanging Loose Press’s Shooting the Rat and Hanging Loose, as well as in the 2008 release Haiku from the Home of Reverend Mofo Jones. She also has photos in the traveling exhibition accompanying the book tour for the latter. Nafeesah is a native of Newark, New Jersey, and currently resides in Harlem.