Monique Ngozi Nri has spent many years involved in community development
and activism. She has been the chair of the Harmony Theater Project and
the Black Arts Alliance in London and the Chair of the Sisters and
Allies, Be Present group in New York, and president of the Friends
of the Walt Whitman Library and the EVCS and PS3 Parent Associations.
She has worked as director of International Student Services at the New
School and director of the Sophomore Year Initiative at Lehman College.
Monique is currently the director of CUNY EDGE at Brooklyn College. As a
partner in Melchizedek
Music Productions , she works to bring the music
of the spirit back into the community of Brooklyn and to ensure that the
music is kept alive in our hearts and minds. Nri is a member of Ahmed
Abdullah's band Diaspora, in which she sings and reads her poetry.
She recently completed her MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration
in poetry at Brooklyn College and has begun teaching English 1010. She
serves as a co-editor of the nonfiction section of the Brooklyn Review.
Her work has won the 2021 Himan Brown Award in Creative Writing. Her
writing has been published in the literary journal, And
Then, The Brooklyn Review, and The
New York City Jazz Record. She is an active
member of the BIPOC Writing Party and a founding member of The Black
Lives Matter Poetry Alliance (BLMPA).