is a writer, Oral historian, educator and multidisciplinary artist from Nigeria. She is best known for her audio poem Aisha which won the 2023 Independent Audio Fiction Award at The Tribeca Film Festival and the 2024 Gold Signal Award for Best Indie Podcast. Her poetry has been featured at the Radio City Music Hall, the Lincoln Centre and Button Poetry. She is also a founder at Illino Media, a platform dedicated to publishing African stories and the youth coordinator for poetry at the Harlem Bomb Shelter.
Her work lies at the intersection of spoken and written language. She is passionate about storytelling and uses a variety of nontraditional mediums to explore themes of colonialism, migration, language, education, and womanhood. She received her BFA in writing from Pratt Institute and is pursuing a master's in Oral History from Columbia University.
Feyiṣayo Aluko
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Signal Award
Winner of the 2024 Gold Signal Award for Best Indie Podcast
Tribeca Film Festival
Winner of the 2023 Tribeca Independent Audio Fiction award
Commencement Speaker
Chosen as the Undergraduate Student speaker for the 2024 Commencement Ceremony at Radio City Music Hall
Harlem Bomb Shelter Grand Slam Champion
Winner of the 2022 Grand Slam competition
'I See My Light Shining' Artist Award
One of 10 artists chosen to create multimedia work in response to the Baldwin Emerson Elders’ Oral History Project in 2024
NYC Youth Poet Laureate Fellow
One of twenty finalists for the 2021 New York City Youth Poet Laureate program