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“Mama Nia” Wilson has been part of the SpiritHouse family since 2002 and currently serves as co-director. A story weaver and cultural alchemist, she was raised in Connecticut concrete on saltwater, sand, soul and Campbell’s Pork & Beans.
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Culture
Cultural Organizing Gives Us a Roadmap to Liberation
Co-directors of SpiritHouse, a Black women-led tribe in Durham, discuss the "life-saving" rituals and practices of freedom that ground their work towards liberation.
Mya Hunter and “Mama Nia” Wilson