Kuukua Dzigbordi Yomekpe MA, MTS

Kuukua Dzigbordi Yomekpe, MA, MTS was born in Ghana, and immigrated to the United States in January 1996. Kuukua has inhabited multiple programming and student affairs roles in education at the University of Dayton, University of Notre Dame (IN), State University of New York, and Le Moyne College.

Kuukua characterizes herself as a memoirist, essayist, and social commentator. Her scholarly and writing interests lie at the intersection of race and skin color, Black women’s bodies, expression of voice, non-conformance, and performativity. Her work appears in African Women Writing Resistance (UW Press), Becoming Bi: Bisexual Voices from Around the World (BRC), and Inside Your Ear (Oakland Public Library Press). Her essay, “The Audacity to Remain Single: Single Black Women in the Black Church,” appeared in Queer Religion II (Praeger Publishers). 

Kuukua’s current projects include The Coal Pot, a Culinary Memoir celebrating her journey as a Queer, Black, and Neuro-diverse woman; Asempe Kitchen, her Vegan Pop-up store, and Musings, a blog which features a collection of personal essays about life as a Black woman in America, loving women, and educating away the stigma of mental illness in Black communities.