Ama Akoto is a narrative-change expert with extensive experience in press, digital communication, and project coordination. Before Prime Health, she helped multi-faceted campaigns that engaged stakeholders on immigrant-rights and criminal-justice issues through storytelling, events, and partnerships with national companies such as Netflix, Airbnb, and Uber, as well as local community institutions such as Broccoli City Con and Suave Fest. From on-the-ground interviews to long-form op-eds, Ama has consistently leveraged her skills as a writer/storyteller to challenge dominant ways of thinking and unite diverse communities around common values and interests. She's also oddly passionate about processes and organizational systems, and has held many training and operational roles over the years. In her free time, Ama enjoys crafting love stories about real people facing real-world issues and writing long-winded essays about why love is, indeed, political.

I have worked in many different advocacy/non-profit sectors, from gender- and sexuality-based rights and mutual aid support to immigrant rights and criminal legal reform. What has taken me from issue to issue is not a preference for one particular issue over another. Rather, what’s motivated me is a deep commitment to my community—which is broad and diverse—and the awareness that we are all part of one, no matter our identity, experience, or past. In the end, that’s who we’re fighting for. Our communities, neighbors, each other, and ourselves. When systems designed to oppress people inevitably fail us—all of us—the thing we’ll fall back on will be community. Because if nobody got us, we got us.