MAÏNA BA

Maïna Ba is a writer and inter-sectional feminist activist. She is Director of La Fléche d’Or (Paris) and specialises in Programming and Communications at The Palace Collective (Berlin).

As an anti-racist and believer in collective action, her work centres strongly around developing campaigns for inclusion and cultural awareness. She has developed programmes that platform emerging POC artists including Live music events, a cineclub for queer and non-western films and Workshop series for woman and minority groups. As a writer, her work is informed by her expereinces as a black woman with a focus on making marginalised voice heard and empowered.

Having been a member of The Palace Collective team since 2018, she has been fundamental to the development of The Palace Collective Manifesto, Regroup 2022 Programme, and the organisations community care processes and reflection and approaches to inclusion and diversity. She also played a key role in conceptualising 90mil and it’s programmes.

She is currently developing a series as a screen writer for Radical Media in Berlin and has written for Décoloniser les Arts and 343 Racisé.e.s. The importance of having a voice in today’s climate is what has pushed her to a career in communications and using creative platforms, media and community to empower those whose voices are too often marginalised.

INALCO Paris 2018-2020

• Arab & Peul studies (BA)

• LLCER Language, Literature, Foreign and Regional Civilisation

• Mention sociology: Memory, migration and Violence

University Autonama de Barcelona 2015 - 2018

• Translation & Interpretation (BA) French, Spanish, Catalan, Standard Arabic