Eghosa Obaizamomwan Hamilton is a first generation Nigerian American originally from Sacramento.  She is co-founder of Making Us Matter (M.U.M.), a Black woman-owned nonprofit educational organization.  M.U.M. aspires to create an educational experience that values the voices and experiences of students and where Black educators are valued and their experiences can inform their teaching.  She is currently pursuing an Education doctorate with a concentration in Racial Justice at the University of San Francisco through the International & Multicultural Education department. She is the author of Making Us Matter: Combating Anti-Blackness, White Supremacy, and Other Conversations About Race In Schools and the co-author of Making Us Matter & the Work of Spirit Revival and Black Teachers Are Essential: A Comparative Study In Black Student Experience.

She has presented at conferences on unpacking anti-Blackness in education, Black student experience, and culturally-responsive curriculum development.  She has developed curriculum for Ethnic Studies, Social Justice English, and Sociology.   With over 14 years of experience her writing, teaching, and research meet at the intersections.  Her sites of inquiry are centered on anti-Blackness in education, Critical Pedagogy, BlackCRT, the experiences of Black girl learners, and embodied epistemologies. She seeks collective liberation and visibility for those who have been left in the margins.

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