Margaret Amaka is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the Marie Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. She is also a lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies (GEMMA) at the University of Łódź. She is a faculty member of the Black Europe Summer School in Amsterdam. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Wroclaw (2015) and an MA in Media Studies from the Jagiellonian University (2009). Margaret 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.
She is the 2024 Susan Treadwell Memorial Awardee and the 2024-2025 Obama Foundation Europe Leader. She is the 2025 Emma Goldman Awardee. She has carried out academic projects funded by the National Science Centre, the Fulbright Program, and the European Commission, among others, and has conducted research in Poland, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
She combines an academic career with public engagement and a strong activist spirit, comprehensively employing strategies and methods of Black and intersectional feminism. 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. She is a co-founder of the innovative School of Antiracist Practices and the Editor-in-Chief of the Empathic Polish Dictionary. She is a trainer with the Ulex Project in Spain, where she facilitates trainings for social justice activists and movements across Europe. She has worked extensively as consultant and trainer with local and international organizations, including the United Nations, European Parliament, Multitudes Foundation, Freedom House, Climate-KIC, Open Society Foundations, Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, Prospera International Network of Women’s Funds, Polish Humanitarian Action, Association of Critical Education, and Krytyka Polityczna.
More about her work can be found here.
