Ciku Kimeria

Is an author, journalist, and communication and strategy specialist, adventurer, and travel writer. A TEDx speaker, recently selected for a Bellagio Center Residency by The Rockefeller Foundation. She is an opinion columnist at Bloomberg and a former editor and longtime contributor at Quartz Africa. She is the author of two mystery novels, Dance of the Monkeys and Of Goats and Poisoned Oranges, and has written for leading African and global publications. She has served as a communication advisor to The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center, The Open Society Initiative of West Africa, and The Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund.